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Ukraine warns of ‘nuclear terrorism’ after strike near plant
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile struck close to a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine without damaging the three reactors but hit other industrial equipment Monday in what Ukrainian authorities denounced as an act of “nuclear terrorism.”
The strike followed warnings from Russian President Vladimir Putin of possible stepped-up attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure after his forces suffered humiliating battlefield setbacks. It also renewed fears of a possible radioactive disaster in the nearly 7-month-long war.
The missile struck within 300 meters (328 yards) of reactors at the Pivdennoukrainsk plant, also known as the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, blasting a crater 2 meters (6 1/2 feet) deep and 4 meters (13 feet) across, according to Ukrainian nuclear operator Energoatom.
Black-and-white CCTV footage released by Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense showed two large fireballs erupting one after the other in the dark, followed by incandescent showers of sparks. A time stamp on the video read 19 minutes after midnight.
The ministry and Energoatom both called the strike “nuclear terrorism.” The Russian Defense Ministry had no immediate comment. The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The industrial complex that includes the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear plant sits along the Southern Bug River about 300 kilometers (190 miles) south of the capital, Kyiv. The attack caused the temporary shutdown of a nearby hydropower plant and shattered more than 100 windows at the complex, Energoatom said.
Ukraine’s presidential office said the attack also severed three power transmission lines.
The nuclear plant is Ukraine’s second-largest after the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is Europe’s largest and has repeatedly come under fire. The two plants have reactors of the same design.
Russian forces have occupied the Zaporizhzhia plant since the early days of the invasion. Shelling cut off its transmission lines, forcing operators to shut down its six reactors to avoid a radiation disaster. Russia and Ukraine have traded blame for the strikes.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said a main transmission line was reconnected Friday, providing electricity that the Zaporizhzhia plant needs to cool its reactors. The IAEA has monitors at the plant.
But the mayor of Enerhodar, the city that hosts the Zaporizhzhia plant, reported more Russian shelling Monday, in the city’s industrial zone.
While warning Friday of possible ramped-up strikes, Putin claimed his forces had so far acted with restraint in responding to Ukrainian attempts to hit Russian facilities.
“If the situation develops this way, our response will be more serious,” Putin said.
“Just recently, the Russian armed forces have delivered a couple of impactful strikes,” he said, referring to attacks last week. ”Let’s consider those as warning strikes.”
As well as infrastructure, Russian forces are also pounding other sites. The latest shelling killed at least eight civilians and wounded 22 others, Ukraine’s presidential office said Monday.
The governor of the northeastern Kharkiv region, now largely back in Ukrainian hands, said Russian shelling killed four medical workers who were trying to evacuate patients from a psychiatric hospital, and wounded two patients.
The mayor of the Russian-occupied eastern city of Donetsk said shelling killed 13 civilians there.
Patricia Lewis, the international security research director at the Chatham House think-tank in London, said the previous attacks at the Zaporizhzhia plant and Monday’s strike pointed to a pattern of Russian military planners attempting to take Ukrainian nuclear plants offline before winter by targeting power supplies that keep them functioning safely.
“It’s a very, very dangerous and illegal act to be targeting a nuclear station,” Lewis said in an interview. “Only the generals will know the intent, but there’s clearly a pattern.”
“What they seem to be doing each time is to try to cut off the power to the reactor,” she said. “It’s a very clumsy way to do it, because how accurate are these missiles?”
Other recent Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure targeted power plants in the north and a dam in the south. They came in the wake of a sweeping Ukrainian counterattack in the country’s east reclaimed Russia-occupied territory in the Kharkiv region and broke what had largely become a stalemate in the war.
The Ukrainian successes — Russia’s biggest defeat since its forces were repelled from around Kyiv in the invasion’s opening stage — have fueled rare public criticism in Russia and added to military and diplomatic pressure piling up for Putin.
Nationalist critics of the Kremlin have questioned why Moscow failed to plunge Ukraine into darkness by hitting all of its major nuclear power plants.
In other developments:
— Ukraine has claimed taking a village in the Russian-occupied area of Ukraine’s Luhansk region. Ukrainian military official Serhiy Haidai said Ukrainian forces had retaken Bilogorivka. There was no immediate acknowledgement by Russia of the claimed capture by Ukraine.
— The Supreme Court in the Russian-controlled region convicted a former interpreter for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe of high treason Monday. Maxim Petrov, a Luhansk resident who translated for an OSCE monitoring mission, was sentenced him to 13 years in prison.
— Iconic Russian singer Alla Pugacheva used her famous voice to question the war. In an Instagram post Sunday, she described Russia as “a pariah” and said its soldiers were dying for “illusory goals.”
The Russian Justice Ministry designated Pugacheva’s husband, singer and TV presenter Maxim Galkin, as a foreign agent Saturday for allegedly conducting political activities on behalf of Ukraine and receiving Ukrainian funding. Galkin previously criticized the war.
On Instagram, where Pugacheva has 3.5 million followers, said she, too, wants to be added to the foreign agents register in solidarity with her husband. She called him husband a “true and incorruptible patriot” who wants “the end of the deaths of our boys for illusory goals that make our country a pariah and weigh heavily on the lives of its citizens.”
The 73-year-old singer has been hugely popular since Soviet times. Her statement was a notable slap from a prominent figure at Russian authorities, who have stifled dissent in recent years. | https://www.41nbc.com/ukraine-warns-of-nuclear-terrorism-after-strike-near-plant/ | 2022-09-19T19:05:47Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/ukraine-warns-of-nuclear-terrorism-after-strike-near-plant/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
US asks appeals court to lift judge’s Mar-a-Lago probe hold
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court Friday to lift a judge’s order that temporarily barred it from reviewing a batch of classified documents seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home last month.
The department told the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta that the judge’s hold, imposed last week, had impeded the “government’s efforts to protect the nation’s security” and interfered with its investigation into the presence of top-secret information at Mar-a-Lago. It asked the court to remove that order so work could resume, and to halt a judge’s directive forcing the department to provide the seized classified documents to an independent arbiter for his review.
“The government and the public would suffer irreparable harm absent a stay” of the order, department lawyers wrote in their brief to the appeals court.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s appointment of a so-called special master to review the documents, and the resulting legal tussle it has caused, appear certain to slow by weeks the department’s investigation into the holding of classified documents at the Florida property after Trump left office. The Justice Department has been investigating possible violations of multiple statutes, including under the Espionage Act, but it remains unclear whether Trump — who has been laying the groundwork for a potential presidential run — or anyone else might be charged.
The FBI says it took about 11,000 documents, including roughly 100 with classification markings found in a storage room and an office, while serving a court-authorized search warrant at the home on Aug. 8. Weeks after the search, Trump lawyers asked a judge to appoint a special master to conduct an independent review of the records.
Cannon granted the request last week, assigning a special master to review the records and weed out any that may be covered by claims of attorney-client or executive privilege. She directed the department to halt its use of the classified documents for investigative purposes until further court order, or until the completion of the special master’s work.
On Thursday night, she assigned Raymond Dearie, the former chief judge of the federal court based in Brooklyn, to serve in the role. She also declined to lift her earlier order, citing ongoing disputes about the nature of the documents that she said merited a neutral review by an outside arbiter.
“The Court does not find it appropriate to accept the Government’s conclusions on these important and disputed issues without further review by a neutral third party in an expedited and orderly fashion,” she wrote.
The Justice Department on Friday night told the appeals court that Cannon’s injunction “unduly interferes with the criminal investigation,” prohibiting investigators from “accessing the seized records to evaluate whether charges are appropriate.” It also prevents the FBI from using the seized records in its criminal investigation to determine which documents, if any, were disclosed and to whom, the department said.
Though Cannon has said investigators are free to do other investigative work that did not involve a review of the documents, the department said Friday that that was largely impractical. Noting the discovery of dozens of empty folders at Mar-a-Lago marked classified, it said the judge’s hold appeared to bar it from “further reviewing the records to discern any patterns in the types of records that were retained, which could lead to identification of other records still missing.”
The department also asked the appeals court to reject Cannon’s order that it provide the newly appointed special master with the classified documents, suggesting there was no reason for the arbiter to review highly sensitive records that did not involve questions of legal privilege.
“Plaintiff has no claim for the return of those records, which belong to the government and were seized in a court-authorized search,” department lawyers wrote. “The records are not subject to any possible claim of personal attorney-client privilege. And neither Plaintiff nor the court has cited any authority suggesting that a former President could successfully invoke executive privilege to prevent the Executive Branch from reviewing its own records.”
Cannon has directed Dearie to complete his work by Nov. 30 and to prioritize the review of the classified documents. She directed the Justice Department to permit the Trump legal team to inspect the seized classified records with “controlled access conditions” — something government lawyers said Friday was needless and harmful.
On Friday, Dearie, a former federal prosecutor, scheduled a preliminary conference with Trump lawyers and Justice Department lawyers for Tuesday afternoon. | https://www.41nbc.com/us-asks-appeals-court-to-lift-judges-mar-a-lago-probe-hold/ | 2022-09-19T19:05:53Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/us-asks-appeals-court-to-lift-judges-mar-a-lago-probe-hold/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
US contractor freed by Taliban in swap for drug trafficker
WASHINGTON (AP) — An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years has been released in exchange for a convicted Taliban drug lord jailed in the United States, the White House said Monday, announcing a rare success in U.S.-Taliban talks since the militant group took power a little more than a year ago
Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran who had spent more than a decade in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor, was abducted in January 2020 and is believed to have been held since then by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network. He was traded for Bashir Noorzai, a Taliban associate convicted of heroin trafficking in 2008 who had spent 17 years behind bars before his release Monday.
The exchange is one of the most significant prisoner swaps to take place under the Biden administration, coming five months after a separate deal with Russia that resulted in the release of Marine veteran Trevor Reed. Frerichs’ family and other advocates had feared that the U.S. military departure from Afghanistan, and the rise of the Taliban to power, would make it harder to bring him home and would deflect attention away from his imprisonment.
U.S. officials across two presidential administrations had tried unsuccessfully to bring Frerichs home. His case has received less public attention than those of other Americans held abroad, including WNBA star Brittney Griner and corporate security executive Paul Whelan, who are both held in Russia and whose relatives met with Biden on Friday
Discussions gained new momentum in June when President Joe Biden granted Noorzai relief from his life sentence, setting the stage for what one administration official described as a “very narrow window of opportunity this month” to carry out the deal.
Biden said in a statement released by the White House, “Bringing the negotiations that led to Mark’s freedom to a successful resolution required difficult decisions, which I did not take lightly.”
A sister of Frerichs, who is from Lombard, Illinois, thanked U.S. government officials who helped secure her brother’s release.
“I am so happy to hear that my brother is safe and on his way home to us. Our family has prayed for this each day of the more than 31 months he has been a hostage. We never gave up hope that he would survive and come home safely to us,” said a statement from the sister, Charlene Cakora.
At the time of his 2005 arrest, Noorzai would hardly have seemed an ideal recipient for presidential clemency. He’d been designated on a list reserved for some of the world’s most prolific drug traffickers, and was prosecuted in federal court in New York on charges that accused him of owning opium fields in Kandahar province and relying on a network of distributors who sold the heroin.
When he was sentenced to life imprisonment, the then-top federal prosecutor in Manhattan said Noorzai’s “worldwide narcotics network supported a Taliban regime that made Afghanistan a breeding ground for international terrorism.”
A senior administration official who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the administration said that the U.S. government had now determined that Noorzai’s release would “not materially change any risk to Americans or fundamentally alter the contours of the drug trade there.” Officials also took into account that Noorzai had spent 17 years in prison.
At a press conference Monday, Noorzai expressed thankfulness at seeing his “mujahedeen brothers” — a reference to the Taliban — in Kabul.
“I pray for more success of the Taliban,” he added. “I hope this exchange can lead to peace between Afghanistan and America, because an American was released and I am also free now.”
Frerichs, 60, had been working on civil engineering projects at the time of his Jan. 31, 2020, abduction in Kabul. He was last seen in a video posted last spring by The New Yorker i n which he appeared in traditional Afghan clothing and pleaded for his release. He was accompanied Monday by the administration’s special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, but his ultimate destination was not immediately clear.
Even before their takeover of Afghanistan in August last year, the Taliban had demanded the U.S. release Noorzai in exchange for Frerichs. But there had been no public sign of Washington proceeding along those lines.
Eric Lebson, a former U.S. government national security official who had been advising Frerichs’ family, said in a statement that “everything about this case has been an uphill fight.” He criticized the Trump administration for having given away “our leverage to get Mark home quickly by signing a peace accord with the Taliban without ever having asked them to return Mark first.”
“Mark’s family then had to navigate two administrations, where many people viewed Mark’s safe return as an impediment to their plans for Afghanistan,” the statement said.
The collapse of the Western-backed Afghan government and takeover by the Taliban in August 2021, raised additional concern that any progress in negotiations could be undone or that Frerichs could be forgotten. But his name surfaced last month when Biden, who had earlier called for Frerichs’ release, was said by his advisers to have pressed officials to consider any risk posed to Frerichs by the drone strike in Afghanistan that killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri.
The Taliban-appointed foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, hailed the exchange Monday as the the start of a “new era” in U.S.-Taliban relations and the opening of a “new door for talks.”
U.S. officials were more circumspect. Though it does not recognize the Taliban government, the U.S. does have interests at stake in Afghanistan and will continue to engage with the Taliban in addressing the hunger and humanitarian crisis gripping the country, administration officials said Monday. But officials say they remain concerned about whether the Taliban are committed to fighting terrorism and by the exclusion of girls from schools there. | https://www.41nbc.com/us-contractor-freed-by-taliban-in-swap-for-drug-trafficker/ | 2022-09-19T19:05:59Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/us-contractor-freed-by-taliban-in-swap-for-drug-trafficker/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bill Kelly
Senior Reporter/ProducerBill Kelly oversees production of Nebraska Public Media's news documentaries and reports for radio. Most recently, Bill produced documentaries on rural law enforcement, Nebraska floods, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Michigan native joined Nebraska Public Media in 1990 and has a special interest in covering the courts and criminal justice system. An Emmy award-winning journalist, Bill graduated from Purdue University. He worked at television stations in Lafayette, Indiana, Wichita, Kansas and Omaha. | https://www.kcur.org/bill-kelly-1 | 2022-09-19T19:10:09Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/bill-kelly-1 | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Culpeper Town Council approved two agreements with Culpeper County, concerning both contribution and operation costs of a public pool during a meeting Sept. 13.
“I don’t feel like the deal is fair but, at the same time, it’s what we need to do to have the pool,” said Councilman Travis Brown.
On Aug. 9, Council voted to move forward with tentative agreements to supply $5 million towards the design and construction of a community pool within the Culpeper Sports Complex as well as pay 50% of the yearly operating costs.
Prior to voting, however, Vice Mayor Bill Yowell expressed concern about whether the town should be responsible for paying 50% since only about 30% of the county’s residents reside within town.
Councilwoman Meaghan Taylor agreed.
Taylor voiced a similar concern during the Council’s meeting by stating that she believed providing operating costs would result in “double taxing” as town residents pay county tax as well.
“The fact that all of us here as town residents already pay county taxes,” she said. “We are already paying to support this pool in addition to the $5 million coming from the town. Any additional operating expenses that the town is asked to pay I feel like that’s us paying twice.”
Councilman Joe Short agreed the agreement may be an instance of double taxation but agreed the recommendation to supply 50% operating costs should move forward.
“I’m not sure this is the hill we want to draw the sword for that particular topic,” he said. “My thought is that we go ahead with this pool.”
Brown agreed.
“I’m not happy with the deal but I want a pool,” he said
In an Aug. 23 Public Safety, Public Works, Planning and Community Development Committee meeting, the members recommended that the Town Council approve the Pool Contribution Agreement and the Pool Operations Agreement with a slight change from the drafted agreement.
The members recommended that Council approve the agreement with the modification to require the removal of the 50% operations and maintenance costs and in turn requiring the county to pay 100% of the operations and maintenance costs.
Brown pushed back against the objection during the Aug. 9 meeting, arguing the minute difference in funds may put the whole project on hold.
“I’ve waited my whole life for a pool in this town or county. It’s been promised since I was in kindergarten,” Brown said. “If we're going to argue about $20,000 or $30,000 per year and that’s what's going to hold this up moving forward, I think that we're getting our feet stuck in the mud and it's never going to happen.”
Projected operating costs per year total $150,000, split between the two agencies.
Both the town and county have explored options to construct a community pool for “probably decades,” Town Manager Chris Hively said.
Previous efforts have failed most often due to a lack of available funding.
In 2021 and 2022, both governments received significant monies from the Federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), creating a pathway to directly or indirectly make funding available for construction. | https://www.insidenova.com/culpeper/culpeper-town-council-approves-pool-agreements/article_5768d480-382d-11ed-8fa9-e32ba0386497.html | 2022-09-19T19:13:09Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/culpeper/culpeper-town-council-approves-pool-agreements/article_5768d480-382d-11ed-8fa9-e32ba0386497.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The second of two data center proposals slated for votes this month has also been delayed.
The Prince William Board of County Supervisors was scheduled to hold a public hearing Tuesday on the John Marshall Commons Technology Park, but the applicant has deferred the hearing to a “date uncertain,” according to the board agenda.
The board was also supposed to hear Stanley Martin Homes’ plans for a data center called Devlin Technology Park this month, but that company delayed its hearing as well.
The John Marshall Commons Technology Park, proposed by CTP-II LLC, is a request to rezone 22.72 acres from business and light industrial to office mid-rise to construct a data center and receive a special-use permit for a facility outside of the Data Center Opportunity Zone overlay district.
CTP-II LLC is connected to Washington, D.C.-based Annexa Inc. The company, operating under CTP-I LLC, received approval for another data center on a 64-acre parcel across Va. 55 last year.
The project requires a special-use permit because it is outside of the Data Center Opportunity Zone overlay district.
The property is across Catharpin Road from a planned data center on 102 acres known as the I-66 and U.S. 29 Technology Park, which is also outside of the overlay district and was approved in December.
A company representative has said the project would represent $556 million in capital investment and generate $41 million in tax revenue over 10 years. They have also said construction would support more than 300 jobs and, once it is completed, the data center will provide 80 to 100 jobs with an average salary of $125,000. | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/john-marshall-commons-data-center-hearing-delayed-in-prince-william-county/article_31d7e3aa-3841-11ed-8288-33fce7327ea5.html | 2022-09-19T19:13:21Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/john-marshall-commons-data-center-hearing-delayed-in-prince-william-county/article_31d7e3aa-3841-11ed-8288-33fce7327ea5.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Virginia’s first openly transgender state lawmaker tells WTOP she expects legal challenges will be filed soon to challenge new state Department of Education policies that would dramatically change the rights of LGBTQ students in Virginia schools.
“There’s a world of legal issues with this,” said Del. Danica Roem, a Democrat representing Prince William County. Roem said there are several bases to fight VDOE’s “2022 Model Policies.”
Under the wide-ranging policy, students must use bathrooms that “match the sex they were assigned at birth,” and it also requires parental permission to change their names and genders at school.
The policy shift was quietly released late in the day on Friday.
“This is in direct violation of the Virginia Human Rights Act,” Roem said, referring to the 2021 law signed by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s predecessor, Democrat Ralph Northam. The VHRA protects against discrimination on the basis of gender identity in public settings, including schools.
“If you discriminate on gender identity, as the governor is doing on this, you are inherently in violation of the Virginia Human Rights Act,” the delegate added.
Roem said the legal challenges will likely come from several directions.
“Do you think any of these school boards in any Northern Virginia jurisdiction are going to put up with this,” Roem asked, rhetorically.
Babur Lateef, chairman of the Prince William County School Board, tells WTOP, “We are looking at the legal implications of the new VDOE rules. But let me make one thing crystal clear. All students come first in Prince William County Schools regardless of their race, religion, or gender, or sexual orientation.”
While Lateef would not go so far as to predict his jurisdiction — or a group of Northern Virginia school boards — would sue the Youngkin administration, this would not be the first time they had joined forces. In February, an Arlington County judge granted seven Virginia school districts a restraining order against Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s ban on mask mandates.
Youngkin has not taken questions since the policy change was made public. In a statement, his spokeswoman Macaulay Porter said: “This is about the right of parents to be involved in such important decisions and all our students are treated with dignity.”
Roem said another legal challenge could come from affected students and their families.
“I would not be surprised if there was a lawsuit to be filed, either as a preliminary injunction, or once there’s actual harm caused to a student because of what the governor is doing here,” Roem said.
A preliminary injunction would likely seek to halt the enforcement of the new policy, which would not go into effect until after a 30-day public comment period, which is expected to begin Sept. 26.
Roem was first elected in 2017, defeating 13-term incumbent Republican Bob Marshall. In 2023, she plans to run for the newly drawn 30th District Senate seat.
The Youngkin policy also addresses the issues of transgender athletes
The newly-released VDOE policies said: “Schools may separate their sports teams on the basis of sex. Neither the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Title IX, nor the Virginia Human Rights Act require school divisions to allow students of one biological sex to participate on sports teams reserved for members of the other biological sex.”
For the past eight years, Roem said, the Virginia High School League has made case-by-case decisions, in the few cases when transgender students have sought to join teams.
“The VHSL is an independent, private entity. The governor does not have the executive authority to tell that private entity what to do in terms of its admission standards for student athletes,” Roem said. “That’s not OK.”
Asked how confident Youngkin is that the new policy would withstand legal challenges, Porter said: “The model policy is crafted to ensure local school boards who adopt it fully comply with all applicable federal and state laws.”
Roem seeks common ground, regardless of political differences
“Regardless of whether someone likes a policy, or doesn’t like a policy, regardless of how people feel about parental rights and everything else, none of us wants any children to be harmed,” Roem said.
The new policy would likely result in school personnel informing parents about their child’s gender identity. The policy reads: “Schools shall defer to parents to make the best decisions with respect to their children,” according to the policy, including “whether their child expresses a gender that differs with their child’s [biological] sex while at school.”
Roem said children who have been “outed” can be at physical and psychological risk at home.
“You have to realize that is reality for far too many kids who do not come from supportive households. You might think this is 2022, people don’t do that anymore, just because someone is out, you know, they do — absolutely, yes, they do,” Roem said.
Roem said she hopes Youngkin would speak to some transgender children, to understand their points of view.
“I understand the perspective of parents, like, ‘Hey, I want to know what’s going on with my kid at school. I want to make sure I’m involved in their education.’ I completely get that,” Roem said. “But I also understand what it meant for me, when I was a closet-case trans kid, knowing that it wasn’t safe for me at school to talk to anyone about it, and how horrible and miserable I felt over it.”
Roem began her gender transition when she was an adult.
Neal Augenstein has been a reporter at WTOP since 1997. Through the years, Neal has covered many of the crimes and trials that have gripped the region. Neal's been pleased to receive awards over the years for hard news, feature reporting, use of sound and sports. | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/legal-challenges-likely-against-new-virginia-policies-on-transgender-students/article_4b5c4f58-383e-11ed-8d1e-63a0c562e0dc.html | 2022-09-19T19:13:27Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/legal-challenges-likely-against-new-virginia-policies-on-transgender-students/article_4b5c4f58-383e-11ed-8d1e-63a0c562e0dc.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In one fell swoop – technically speaking, three – Arlington County Board members on Sept. 17 voted to increase the number of available child-care spaces in Arlington by about 8 percent.
Three different projects totaling 472 new seats were approved as part of the board’s consent agenda.
“This is really exciting,” said County Board Chairman Katie Cristol, who noted that efforts undertaken in 2019 “made it easier for child-care centers to open in Arlington.”
The new facilities include the Gardner School, 1776 Wilson Blvd.; Celebree School, 1321 South Elm St.; and Pathways Learning at Grace Community Church, 4238 Wilson Blvd.
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Arlington County Board members continue to drive the final stakes into the heart of a one-time local-government policy to force retail uses onto the ground floors of residential and commercial buildings.
Board members on Sept. 17 approved a switch from requiring retail uses to accepting “retail-equivalent” in a number of buildings across the county. In one example, owners of a commercial office building at 1300 Wilson Blvd. in Rosslyn won permission to renovate 2,260 square feet of space to serve non-retail purposes.
“We are trying to be more innovative and creative at a time, especially, when office space is experiencing high levels of vacancy,” County Board Chairman Katie Cristol said.
Allowing more flexibility would support “a more resilient” office market, she said.
Two decades ago, a previous County Board made inclusion of ground-floor retail almost required in new development, under the theory that it would add vibrancy and activity to otherwise cavernous office-building corridors.
Sometimes that goal panned out, but many times it did not, and for years board members have been agreeing on a piecemeal basis to permit other uses in spaces previously designated for ground-floor retail.
The county’s zoning ordinance doesn’t define the term “retail-equivalent,” but county staff take it to mean ancillary activities that might draw a crowd to the space, including museums, galleries, day-care facilities, medical/dental offices, colleges and, for residential buildings, community rooms and fitness centers.
Moving in that direction might help owners of commercial buildings fill that space, in turn helping the county government, since tax bills on those buildings depend, in large part, on how much rental income is being generated.
Arlington was slowly battling back from high office-vacancy rates in the years just before COVID struck. The arrival of the pandemic in 2020 upended the workplace environment, and could have long-term, and as-yet-unknowable, consequences on Arlington’s commercial-property sector.
[https://sungazette.news provides content to, but otherwise is unaffiliated with, InsideNoVa or Rappahannock Media LLC.] | https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/arlington-officials-continue-to-move-away-from-ground-floor-retail-requirements/article_6d286fba-3837-11ed-9548-73cbcafaac7d.html | 2022-09-19T19:13:40Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/arlington-officials-continue-to-move-away-from-ground-floor-retail-requirements/article_6d286fba-3837-11ed-9548-73cbcafaac7d.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Stephen Kennedy, a senior at Flint Hill School in Oakton, recently learned he had received a perfect 1600 score on the SAT he took at the school in late August.
“I worked pretty hard to achieve a score that I wanted,” said Kennedy, who recently turned 18. “I’d taken it a few times before and had always been pretty strong in math. I really wanted to focus on English, writing and grammar.”
He was among only 500 of the 2 million students who took the SAT this year to notch a perfect score.
Kennedy, the youngest of Maureen and Edward Kennedy’s five children, said his family values education.
He joined Flint Hill School as a junior kindergartner and said teachers there challenge students’ thinking.
“Being able to go to a school like Flint Hill for the past 14 years has helped me a lot,” he said.
Kennedy plays basketball at the school and is heavily involved in community service. He is president of the school’s Honor Flight Club, which supports military veterans, and is an ambassador for the Young Men’s Service League, members of which perform service along with their mothers.
Kennedy still is deciding which college he would like to attend. As for his future, “I’m thinking of doing something business-related,” he said.
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The Potomac School began the 2022-23 academic year on Sept. 7 with a record 1,069 K-12 students enrolled, and two days later paid tribute to two educators who have changed the lives of many students.
A highlight of the school’s annual Opening Assembly, held Sept. 9, was the presentation of Potomac School’s 2022 Bill Cook Award for Excellent Teaching. Named in honor of beloved teacher and assistant head of school Bill Cook, who died in 2016, the award is presented annually to teachers “who exemplify the commitment to excellence and love of learning that define a Potomac School education.”
Honored in 2022 were Shefali Sardar and Nick Hanson.
In nearly 25 years at Potomac School, Sardar has held a number of classroom and administrative positions. She began as a Middle School (grades 4-6) teaching intern, then served as a sixth-grade teacher, a language-arts resource teacher, and the Middle School’s language-arts and humanities coordinator.
In 2016, Sardar was named the Middle School’s first academic dean; she continues in that role today, while also serving as a language-arts specialist, working primarily with sixth-graders.
“Shefali Sardar is known for her incredible work ethic and uncanny ability to address specific student-learning needs,” said Head of School John Kowalik. “She devotes time before, during and after school to work with students who need extra support, talk with parents, assist her colleagues and strengthen our Middle School curriculum. She leads by example, consistently going above and beyond to support our students’ learning and our teachers’ success.”
“Ms. Sardar embodies the Potomac ideal of lifelong learning, both in her efforts to expand her own knowledge and skills and in her focus on helping her fellow teachers grow and excel,” Kowalik said. “She is a dedicated teacher, a collegial leader and a tremendous asset to our school.”
Hanson joined Potomac School’s music department in 2006. Through his efforts, the school’s handbell program has grown to include five ensembles, featuring 139 students in grades 5 through 12.
“Mr. Hanson is a passionate, engaging and very talented teacher,” Kowalik said. “Thanks to his expert instruction, Potomac handbell performances showcase the most advanced and current techniques in ringing. And, to the delight of student-performers and audiences alike, the music often includes chart-topping popular songs that Mr. Hanson has arranged himself.”
In addition to leading Potomac School’s program, Hanson has spoken at music conventions and conducted at handbell festivals throughout the U.S. and in England, China and Singapore. Many of his handbell compositions and arrangements have been published.
“Along with his work as a music teacher, Mr. Hanson serves as a seventh-grade adviser and sponsors our Intermediate School (grades 7 and 8) Anime Club,” Kowalik said. “He is an enthusiastic educator, respected by students and colleagues alike for his skill, generosity and unwavering dedication to excellence.”
The Sept. 9 opening assembly, held outdoors, began with a procession of the school’s oldest and youngest students, as the members of the Class of 2023 escorted the kindergartners into their first Potomac School assembly. At the event, Kowalik reflected on the meaning and importance of generosity of spirit, and Student Government Association President Yabby Maelaf urging her fellow students to follow their passions and persevere as they pursue their goals.
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Retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Stephen Wilson, 39th vice chief of staff of the Air Force, provides an introduction for Guest speaker retired U.S. Air Force Col. Cesar "Rico" Rodriguez who next provides comments during the U.S. Air Force 75th Ball followed by U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Russell Driggers, 502nd Air Base Wing, commander, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, with closing remarks at the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 17, 2022. The theme of this year's Air Force Ball was "Proud Past, Promising Future," and allowed participants to connect, engage and boost morale among the active duty, reservists, civilians, and private sector partners to foster an ongoing kinship within the Military City, USA, community. (U.S. Air Force photo by Brian Boisvert)
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Army Veterans from the 44th Engineer Battalion visit the 139th Airlift Wing, Rosecrans Air National Guard Base, St. Joseph, Missouri, Sept. 15, 2022. The visitors toured a C-130 Hercules and learned about the the mission of the 139th. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Audrey Chappell)
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Children at Chicopee’s Herbert Bowie Elementary School held a 75th Air Force Birthday party, on Sept. 15. Each of the 270 kindergarten through fifth-grade students wore a 75th logo tee shirt.
Col. Joseph Janik, 439th Airlift Wing commander was one of the special guests who spoke at the event. Principal Norman Burgess led the program. He spoke of the close relationship between the school and the base.
“Years ago the school was actually part of Westover and during the Berlin Airlift, Bowie Students contributed candy on parachutes that were then dropped for the children from cargo planes that were delivering food,” Said Principal Burgess.
Burgess introduced Col. Janik as the person who is the boss of all of those big planes you see flying in the sky. He thanked the students for welcoming new military students to their classes.
Col. Janik asked the students, “Who has parents in the military or work on base?”
A few students raised their hands and named the branch of service they worked for.
To finish the program Principal Burgess presented framed artwork the children had made. The students concluded with patriotic songs and everyone got a piece of birthday cake.
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Harrison Burton and the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane team persevered through some early adversity to post a 16th-place finish in the Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Burton started the 500-lap race from 27th place then had a flat tire in the early going that put him a lap down.
He worked his way into position to get the free pass at the end of the first 125-lap Stage and rejoined the lead lap for the start of the second Stage.
Just after the ensuing restart, Burton spun and had another flat tire after being collected due to contact between two other drivers.
He pitted for fresh tires and rejoined the fray.
On Lap 196, the No. 21 Mustang suffered another flat tire but another driver’s spin brought out the caution flag, which allowed Burton to again collect the free pass and get back on the lead lap.
He moved into the top 25 just past the 200-lap mark and continued to move forward, ending the second Stage in 15th place.
In the third and final segment of the race, he started 23rd but ran in or around the top 15 for the rest of the way, ending the race in 16th place.
Burton and the No. 21 team now head to Texas Motor Speedway for next Sunday’s Autotrader Echo Park Automotive 500.
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RFK Racing stole the show Saturday night at the famous Bristol Night Race as Chris Buescher earned his second-ever NASCAR Cup Series win, piloting the Fastenal Ford Mustang to the first win under the new RFK banner. He and teammate and co-owner Brad Keselowski led a combined 278 laps with the No. 6 winning the opening stage.
For Buescher, the victory snaps a 223-race winless streak, and he did it on a momentous day, his career 250th start in the NCS. It marks the first Cup win for RFK in 191 races (Daytona, 2017), and is the first non-Superspeedway win for RFK since the 2014 Sonoma race (Carl Edwards). Fastenal, who has backed Roush since 2010, also picks up its first Cup Series win as the anchor partner on the No. 17 team.
“This has been number one on my list for a really long time,” Buescher said. “It’s my favorite place we come on concrete. It’s just so special to get Fastenal their first points Cup race. After all these years we finally got them into Victory Lane.”
Everybody on this team did such a great job, executed all day long and we had a really fast Ford Mustang. A lot of special things came together. I want to give a shout out to Adam Reagan. He’s back at home and just had some knee surgery, so he’s at home recovering. I’m just so excited right now. This is one I’ve had circled for a really long time and if there was going to be one this year to get, this is it.”
17 Recap
A gutsy, two-tire call by crew chief Scott Graves with just over 50 to go ultimately gave Buescher the lead off pit road for the race’s final restart. In total, Buescher ran near the front for all but a handful of the laps in the middle portion of the race, finishing seventh in the opening stage before retaking the momentum late.
The No. 17 rolled off the grid 20th following qualifying on Saturday, but wasted no time advancing up from there. After an early yellow on lap 42, Graves kept Buescher on track and capitalized on track position, restarting third just shy of lap 50. That position held for Buescher until his first pit stop of the evening under caution at lap 91. After rolling back off 18th, Buescher charged to the front in the final 26 laps of the opening stage to seventh.
He led the field to green on the ensuing restart, and from there led 101 consecutive laps as he remained on track through a pair of cautions. He ultimately hit pit road again at lap 234 under yellow, giving up his track position for a 10-lap shootout to the second stage flag.
After finishing 14th in the second stage, he restarted ninth for the final, 250-lap stage, and from there slowly picked his way back through the field. He was up to fifth with 150 to go and maintained there, then, when the caution came out with 64 laps remaining, Graves made the call for just two fresh tires, giving Buescher track position to lead the field back to green.
He never relinquished the lead again and dominated the final laps en route to the victory.
6 Recap
Keselowski’s night went from dominant to gut-wrenching in a hurry as a blown tire ruined what may have been a duel between he and Buescher for the win. Keselowski began the night from the 10th position, and, like Buescher, stayed out under the first yellow to lead the field back to green. The two RFK teammates stayed 1-2 all the way to lap 91, but Keselowski remained on track through the end of the opening, 125-lap stage, earning the stage win.
Following his first service of the night on the Kohler Generators Ford, Keselowski fired off 17th in stage two, and after a series of cautions in the 125-lap segment, finished it 13th. He and Buescher lined up nose-to-tail to start stage three in eighth (and ninth), and began his charge forward from there. Running third with 149 to go, Keselowski hit pit road and restarted third with 140 to go. He would drive past the No. 5 at lap 388 to take the lead, and stretched out a considerable lead of well over two seconds.
But, with 86 to go, the No. 6 suffered a flat right-front tire and no caution was displayed, bringing Keselowski to pit road for repairs and fresh tires. Despite a valiant effort late to get back on the lead lap, he was unfortunately trapped a lap down and would finish 13th.
The victory for Buescher marks the first as a Co-Owner for Keselowski. It is the 12th win for Jack Roush’s team at the historic Bristol Motor Speedway, and is the 138th Cup win for Roush overall.
Up Next
Riding a wave of momentum, Texas Motor Speedway is up next for the Cup Series. Race coverage next Sunday is set for 3:30 p.m. ET on USA Network, and can also be heard on PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
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Red Bluff’s Carsen Perkins, the 2022 Red Bluff Outlaws Outlaw Kart champion, broke through in the Micro Sprint ranks on Saturday night with his first Delta Speedway presented by Valley Strong Credit Union win. Perkins’ Non-Wing victory was part of a four-division lineup during the penultimate round of the 2022 series in Stockton.
Non-Wing championship contender Austin Torgerson of Medford, Oregon topped time trials with a sizzling 9.774 wingless lap around the 1/7th mile dirt track. Eight-time track champion Caden Sarale of Stockton and Perkins won the 10-lap heat races.
An eight-car invert placed Perkins and his No. 35 Micro Sprint on the pole position for the $500-to-win, 30-lap affair. Perkins was repeatedly challenged by Sarale in a close duel. Sarale showed his nose in turn three on lap 17 to no avail. He tried the outside a lap later and drove around the top of Perkins to lead lap 19. The caution flew a lap later for Cody Gray stopped at the top of turn four. Former champion Dan Mognaga of Valley Springs stopped in turn two to surrender third on the restart.
Perkins answered back with a move around the outside but was unable to complete the pass. Sarale drove wide in turn three on lap 24 and surrendered multiple positions including the lead to Perkins. Perkins held off Gilbert for the breakthrough win. Austin Torgerson finished third followed by Brentwood’s Jeffrey Pahule with Sarale having to settle for fifth.
Stockton’s Nikko Panella extended his points lead in Super 600 with his third winged win of the year worth $500. Panella bested the 16 entries in time trials with a 9.174 second lap while heat races were claimed by Austin Torgerson and Caden Sarale.
Panella started on the pole for the 30-lap feature. The action slowed on lap three for Austin Torgerson stopping inside of turn one. Panella cruised to a strong 1.374 advantage at the checkered flag. Elk Grove’s Devon Courtnier nabbed second from San Jose’s Nate Matherly on lap 16 then held it to the finish. Ninth-starting Alex Panella of Stockton finished fourth ahead of tenth-starting Pahule.
Andrew Smith of Castro Valley won his fourth 25-lap Restricted feature of the year which paid $300 to win. Points leader and seven-time 2022 winner Lucas Mauldin of Rancho Murieta was the quickest qualifier. Kyle Fernandez of Tracy and Hayden Stepps of Oakdale earned the heat race wins.
Mauldin started on the pole with Smith in pursuit. That pursuit bore fruit as Mauldin got mired behind a lapped car in turn one on lap 15. Smith took advantage to drive by into the lead on lap 16. A caution fell on lap 18 for Levi Osborne of Tracy and Mickelina Monica of Livermore crashing on the backstretch.
Smith held off Mauldin over the final six laps with 2021 Jr. Sprints champion Brody Rubio of Manteca finishing third. Fernandez and Peyton Whitehouse of Pleasanton rounded out the top-five.
Maya Mauldin of Rancho Murieta won her third Jr. Sprints feature of the season and closed within 37-points of points leader Briggs Davis of Manteca with one round remaining. Heston Stepps of Oakdale, Haven Sherman of Citrus Heights, Davis, and Mauldin were the four heat race winners. Nathan Fernandez of Tracy and Colton Hale of Manteca shared the front row for the 20-lap feature which paid $200 to win.
Fernandez led the first two laps before he slowed and fell to third. A multi-car crash on the backstretch then brought out the red flag.
Mauldin assumed the lead and never relinquished it for the win while Davis drove from sixth to finish second. Stepps ran third followed by ninth-starting Jackson Tardiff of Vacaville and Kyle Klagenberg of Arboga.
Delta Speedway crowns its 2022 champions on Saturday October 1 with all four regularly scheduled divisions in action!
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Delta Speedway Results – September 17, 2022 Points Race #13
SUPER 600 (30 LAPS)
1. 73-Nikko Panella[1]; 2. 34-Devon Courtnier[3]; 3. 19-Nate Matherly[2]; 4. 12-Alex Panella[9]; 5. 44X-Jeffery Pahule[10]; 6. 24-Caden Sarale[5]; 7. 2-Austin Wood[13]; 8. 5-Mattix Salmon[12]; 9. 02-Ashton Torgerson[16]; 10. 21-Raio Salmon[14]; 11. 32A-Colton Huelsmann[8]; 12. 10R-Rylee Whitehouse[7]; 13. (DNF) 27-Ron Singh[6]; 14. (DNF) 88-Austin Torgerson[4]; 15. (DNF) 91C-Colby Greig[11]; 16. (DNS) 67-Ryan Dotson
NON-WING (30 LAPS)
1. 35-Carsen Perkins[1]; 2. 4G-Brian Gilbert[2]; 3. 88-Austin Torgerson[8]; 4. 44X-Jeffery Pahule[6]; 5. 32-Caden Sarale[4]; 6. 23C-Cody Samuels[10]; 7. 73-Nikko Panella[7]; 8. 2-Austin Wood[11]; 9. 5-Mattix Salmon[13]; 10. 77-Sage Bordenave[15]; 11. 68-Jayson Bright[12]; 12. 4Q-Mike Graves[14]; 13. (DNF) 22-Dan Mognaga[3]; 14. (DNF) 04-Cody Gray[5]; 15. (DNS) 02-Ashton Torgerson
RESTRICTED (25 LAPS)
1. 33-Andrew Smith[3]; 2. 55X-Lucas Mauldin[1]; 3. 25R-Brody Rubio[2]; 4. 77K-Kyle Fernandez[6]; 5. 10P-Peyton Whitehouse[4]; 6. 98-Hayden Stepps[7]; 7. 5-Kellan Harper[10]; 8. 76-TK OBrien[8]; 9. 27C-Cameron Carraway[9]; 10. 15H-Jace Hale[11]; 11. 9J-Levi Osborne[5]; 12. 09N-AJ Neilson[12]; 13. 25A-Bradley Anderson[13]; 14. (DNF) 21-Mickelina Monico[14]
JR SPRINTS (20 LAPS)
1. 55X-Maya Mauldin[3]; 2. 96-Briggs Davis[6]; 3. 98-Heston Stepps[4]; 4. 38J-Jackson Tardiff[9]; 5. 11K-Kyle Klagenberg[5]; 6. 15H-Colton Hale[2]; 7. 117-Alex Ranuio[7]; 8. 12-Haven Sherman[8]; 9. 25DD-Samantha Dozier[10]; 10. 26-Dylan Silva[14]; 11. 24N-Nathan Fernandez[1]; 12. 97-James Curry[12]; 13. 55-Jayden Carey[13]; 14. (DNF) 09-Brandon Curry[11]
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It is finally race week for Pro Late Model racing's richest weekend this Friday and Saturday, September 23-24, 2022, at Virginia Motor Speedway. The $50,000 to win FASTRAK World Championship presented by Dealer Group USA will attract some of the country's top talent to see who will be crowned World Champion and become a legend.
Track officials are busy preparing the facilities for what is expected to be another record car count. The weekend will again put the spotlight squarely on the country's best Pro Late Model drivers. This mega race will pay the winner a whopping $50,000.
The weekend will also include a $1500 to win non-qualifiers race for the fastest twenty-four cars from qualifying that don't make the A-Main.
It all kicks off Friday, September 23rd, with registration, tech, two rounds of hots laps, qualifying, and heats for the FASTRAK Pro Late Model competitors.
The following night Saturday, September 24th, the FASTRAK Pro Late Model competitors will have B Main(s), the 60-lap $50,000 feature, and the non-qualifiers race. The 60-lap $50,000 to win feature will consist of two 30-lap segments with a 10-minute pit stop in the middle. The driver leading at halfway will receive $1000 cash. During the break, drivers will be permitted to make adjustments and change the right rear tire only, all within a 10-minute time limit.
Also, there will be a drawing for a new GM604 crate engine worth $7500 for the competitors that do not make either feature. The winner will take that engine when they leave for home.
The event is open to all Pro Late Model competitors. The event will run under FASTRAK rules, with all series seals being legal, with the tire rule being FT200/FT400. In the event of rain, Sunday, September 25th, is scheduled as the rain date.
The speedway is currently pre-selling two-day tickets online at https://bit.ly/2022WC_Tx or by searching MyRacePass.com for Virginia Motor Speedway tickets. Two-day adult tickets are $40, senior (60+) / military $35, students (13-17) $15. Save up to $15 on single-day tickets.
Admission prices for Friday only adults $25, senior (60+) / military $20, students (13-17) $15 and children 12 and under free.
Admission for Saturday only is adults $35, senior (60+) / military $25, students (13-17) $15, and children 12 and under free.
Pit passes, regardless of age, are $60 for either a single or two-day pass and will also get you a seat in the grandstands.
The speedway offers free camping (no hookups) and plenty of well-lit and free parking.
Bill Sawyer's Virginia Motor Speedway is a ½-mile dirt oval track located on U.S. Route 17, eight miles north of Saluda, VA, and 25 miles south of Tappahannock, VA, in Jamaica, VA. The speedway is just a short drive from Richmond, Fredericksburg, Southern Maryland, and the Hampton Roads area.
Check out the official website for the FASTRAK Racing Series at www.fastrakracing.com and continue to follow our social media networks for the FASTRAK Racing Series. Like and Follow our Fan Page on Facebook, plus follow @FASTRAK_Racing on Twitter to get up-to-the-minute news and details as they become available. FASTRAK can also be found on Instagram @fastrak_racing.
The 2022 marketing partners for the FASTRAK Racing Series are Chevrolet Performance, V.P. Racing Fuel "The official fuel of FASTRAK," V.P. Racing Lubricants, Dealer Group USA, Flo Racing "The official video home of FASTRAK," TNT Race Cars, Arizona Sport Shirts, and Thomas Clarke Performance.
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Afro-Latin singer, songwriter and Miami native Adassa will perform the National Anthem at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday, Oct. 23, prior to the start of the Dixie Vodka 400 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs race.
Adassa will display her impressive four-octave vocal range in her rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” as part of the pre-race ceremonies on Sunday afternoon. Soon after her performance, the sounds of roaring engines will fill the iconic South Florida venue, as the 1.5-mile track makes its long-awaited playoff return at 2:30 p.m. ET.
“We’re extremely proud to have Adassa return to her roots of South Florida to sing the national anthem prior to the start of the Dixie Vodka 400 which returns to the NASCAR Playoffs,” said Homestead Miami Speedway President Al Garcia. “Her lovely singing voice just adds to the fantastic lineup of entertainment and events we have scheduled for our October race weekend.”
Adassa first stepped on to the entertainment scene after landing the lead in McDonald’s “Me Encanta” campaign, and later appeared in commercial roles for brands like TOYOTA, Proctor and Gamble’s Secret. From there, she continued to rise to stardom, being featured in songs and performances with international sensations such as Pitbull, Flo Rida, Snoop Dogg, Daddy Yankee, Ciara, Missy Elliott, Luis Fonsi and many others.
Last year, the bilingual voice actress played the character Dolores Madrigal in Disney’s Academy Award winning film “Encanto.” She, along with her other “Encanto” castmates, took to the stage at the 94th Oscars in March earlier this year to preform the film’s hit song “We Don’t Talk About Bruno.”
Multi-platinum, country music artist Kip Moore will get the Sunday pre-race festivities started by performing the Dixie Vodka 400 pre-race concert.
The highly anticipated Homestead-Miami playoff weekend gets rolling on Saturday with back-to-back races, starting with the Baptist Health Cancer Care 200, the last race in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series’ Playoffs Round of 8. It is set for a green flag start at 1 p.m. ET. Then at 4:00 p.m., drivers in the NASCAR Xfinity Series face off in the Contender Boats 300 Playoffs’ Round of 8.
On Sunday, NASCAR Cup Series’ best will go head-to-head in 267, action-packed laps in the Dixie Vodka 400. The playoff race is the second-to-last race in the Cup Series’ Playoffs Round of 8. If a playoff eligible driver wins, he will advance to the Championship 4 at Phoenix in November.
For information on 3-race ticket packages and further details about the upcoming playoff weekend at Homestead Miami Speedway, please visit www.homesteadmiamispeedway.com or call (866) 409-RACE (7223).
Fans can also receive updates about upcoming events and races at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, as well as the all-new NASCAR Tracks App for the latest speedway news.
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Strong earthquake shakes Mexico’s Pacific coast
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico’s central Pacific coast on Monday, setting off a seismic alarm in the rattled capital on the anniversary of two earlier devastating quakes.
There were no immediate reports of significant damage from the quake that hit at 1:05 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geologic Survey, which had initially put the magnitude at 7.5.
It said the quake was centered 37 kilometers (23 miles) southeast of Aquila near the boundary of Colima and Michoacan states and at a depth of 15.1 kilometers (9.4 miles).
Michoacan’s Public Security Department said there were no immediate reports of significant damage in that state beyond some cracks in buildings in the town of Coalcoman.
Mexico’s National Civil Defense agency said that the navy’s tsunami center had not issued an alert because due to the epicenter’s location, no variation in sea levels was expected. However, that contradicted an alert from the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center. It said that hazardous tsunami waves were possible for coasts within 186 miles (300 kilometers) of the epicenter.
Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum also tweeted that there were no reports of damage in the capital
Alarms for the new quake came less than an hour after quake alarms warbled in a nationwide earthquake simulation marking major, deadly quakes that struck on the same date in 1985 and 2017.
Humberto Garza stood outside a restaurant in Mexico City’s Roma neighborhood holding his 3-year son. Like many milling about outside after the earthquake, Garza said that the earthquake alarm sounded so soon after the annual simulation that he was not sure it was real.
“I heard the alarm, but it sounded really far away,” he said.
Outside the city’s environmental ombudsman’s office, dozens of employees waited. Some appeared visibly shaken.
Power was out in parts of the city, including stoplights, snarling the capital’s already notorious traffic.
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Hurricane Fiona roared over the Dominican Republic on Monday, a day after knocking out power to all of Puerto Rico and causing damage the governor described as “catastrophic.” Many people were also left without water service.
The blow from Fiona was made more devastating because Puerto Rico has yet to recover from Hurricane Maria, which killed nearly 3,000 people and destroyed the power grid in 2017. Five years later, more than 3,000 homes on the island still have blue tarps for a roof.
The wind and water from Fiona stripped the pavement from roads, tore off roofs, and sent torrents pouring into homes. The storm also took out a bridge and flooded an airport runway.
Authorities reported no deaths directly from Fiona, but Puerto Rico officials said it was too early to know the full scope of damage. The storm was still expected to unleash torrential rain across the U.S. territory.
Governor Pedro Pierluisi declined to say how long it would take to fully restore electricity but said for most customers, “It’s a question of days.”
“The damages that we are seeing are catastrophic,” Pierluisi said.
The island’s National Weather Service office said flash flooding was occurring in south-central parts of Puerto Rico and tweeted, “Move to higher ground immediately!”
Up to 22 inches of rain fell in some areas of Puerto Rico and forecasters said another 4 to 8 inches could fall as the storm moves away, with even more possible in some places.
Rain totals of up to 15 inches were projected for the eastern Dominican Republic, where authorities closed ports and beaches and told most people to stay home from work.
“It’s important people understand that this is not over,” said Ernesto Morales, a weather service meteorologist in San Juan.
He said flooding reached “historic levels,” with authorities evacuating or rescuing hundreds of people across Puerto Rico. Water service was cut to more than 837,000 customers—two-thirds of the total on the island—because of turbid water at filtration plants or lack of power, officials said.
Brown water rushed through streets, into homes, and covered a runway in southern Puerto Rico. Authorities said at least 1,300 people spent the night in shelters across the island.
On Monday morning, Fiona was centered about 10 miles southeast of Samana in the Dominican Republic, with maximum sustained winds of 85 miles per hour, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. It was moving to the northwest at 8 miles per hour.
The storm was expected to move into the Atlantic in the afternoon and pass close to the Turks and Caicos islands on Tuesday. It could draw near Bermuda as a major hurricane late Thursday or on Friday, forecasters said.
Authorities announced Monday that power had been returned to 100,000 customers on Puerto Rico, an island of 3.2 million people, but power distribution company Luma said it could take days to fully restore service.
President Joe Biden declared a state of emergency as the eye of the storm approached Puerto Rico’s southwest corner.
Fiona previously battered the eastern Caribbean, killing one man in the French territory of Guadeloupe when floodwaters washed his home away, officials said. The system hit Puerto Rico on the anniversary of Hurricane Hugo, which slammed into the island in 1989 as a Category 3 storm. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/after-battering-puerto-rico-hurricane-fiona-slams-dominican-republic | 2022-09-19T19:34:25Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/after-battering-puerto-rico-hurricane-fiona-slams-dominican-republic | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A trio of paradise islands famed for sparkling sapphire waters, white-sand beaches, and, yes, favorable taxation laws, the Cayman Islands also boast a reputation for being the Caribbean’s culinary capital. These compact islands have limited options in regard to agriculture, so locals turned to an abundant alternative: the sea.
With more than 200 restaurants covering Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac, the cuisine takes the islands’ rich marine life as its foundation, then steeps it in the flavors and influences of the Greater Antilles and nearby Mexico, Cuba, and Miami. Snapper, mahi-mahi, and lobster seasoned with herbs, citrus, and a generous helping of chile are the most popular Caymanian staples, but the menu doesn’t stop there.
Here are 10 dishes you must try during your next visit to the Cayman Islands, as well as a few of the best places to find them.
Fish tea
Reading the name, you’d be forgiven for thinking this dish merges two ingredients one should never combine. This hearty soup is, however, lovingly toiled over for hours in homes across the Caribbean. Commonly made with yam, pumpkin, cassava, and bananas plus a fresh seafood catch, the soup is seasoned with a liberal dose of thyme, butter, and coconut milk.
Ronaldo and Rosie Garcia at Heritage Kitchen are the local authorities on this Caymanian classic. Take a seat at one of the brightly colored tables, or better yet, perch on the seawall next to this friendly West Bay beach hut. Dishes change daily, but fish tea is always on the menu.
Fish fry
When tasting what some argue is the most popular dish in the Caymans, you have to experience it at an appropriately excellent restaurant. Run by jovial couple Ozzie and Nancy Bodden, Grape Tree Café draws crowds for its huge portions of fish fry.
They’re usually made with battered or breaded snapper or mahi-mahi, pan fried and served with coleslaw, fries, and hot sauce. You’ll be so full that you probably won’t need to eat for the remainder of the day. Or opt for Jamaican favorite escovitch: a crispy whole red snapper with scotch bonnet peppers and vinegar that add up to some fiery Caymanian heat.
Cassava cake
This sugary dessert leans far into the sweet stuff: coconut milk, brown sugar, vanilla butter, and cassava. Also known as “heavy cake,” this syrupy brown Cayman Islands staple is often made with yam or sweet potato and is a favorite at festivals and celebrations.
Arrive early at Vivine’s Kitchen, the seafront yellow house belonging to Vivine and Ray Walter, who serve the best cassava cake in Grand Cayman. For your main dish, the curried goat or Cayman style beef are delicious, but be warned: By early afternoon they will almost certainly be sold out and the café shuttered for the day.
Goat curry
Whether on the roadside, in local homes, or at expensive restaurants, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anyplace in the Cayman Islands that doesn’t serve goat curry. A rich, spicy dish also popular in India and Sri Lanka, goat curry is flavored with scotch bonnets, ginger, tomato, thyme, and—in the Caribbean version—hot Jamaican curry powder.
At the brand new Palm Heights restaurant Tillies, a team of chefs hailing from across the Antilles take the dish back to its South Asian roots using a whole local goat with added coconut sambal and flaky tamarind roti.
Lionfish
There’s a new fish on the block, and this invasive, spiky, poisonous predator is the unlikely hero of the Cayman Islands’ sustainable seafood scene. A tasty white fish similar to grouper, lionfish is easily fried or served as sushi, although for a local twist you’ll want to try it in a citrusy ceviche.
Tukka on Grand Cayman has become one of the biggest advocates for eating lionfish, where chef Ron Hargrave artfully blends Caribbean ingredients into Australian classics. Don’t miss its sizzling lionfish tacos with sweet chile and fried onions. Both the East End and West Bay eateries have rum lists longer than Seven Mile Beach, which you can enjoy mixed into a refreshing Cayman Island Iced Tea.
Cracked conch
The deep-fried, golden goodness of cracked conch is a Bahamian dish that’s firmly ingrained in Cayman Island life. Conch appears in endless recipes, and whether boiled, stewed, fried, or steamed, the crispy strands of cracked conch—similar to calamari and typically served with fries and hot sauce—always hit the spot.
The “cracked” designation is derived from a preparation technique that involves using a frying pan to pound the meat into thin and tender strips, and those who do it best are the chefs at the eponymous the Cracked Conch, where the dish has been served with pickled fennel and escovitch tartar sauce since it opened more than 40 years ago.
Conch stew
A blackboard emblazoned with “Pat’s Kitchen” and a few scribbled dishes is all that alerts you to this popular local café on Cayman Brac, where conch stew is the must-try menu item.
Slow-cooked with potatoes, carrots, dumplings, and tomatoes, it’s a hearty, family-oriented dish that originated in the Florida Keys. On these islands, you’ll almost always order it “Cayman style,” which means well-cooked and spicy. At Pat’s Kitchen, chef Patrick rubs dishes off the menu throughout the day, so when it’s gone, it’s gone.
Cayman-style beef
At Tomfoodery Kitchen, with its bright interiors painted by local artists, you’ll find Caymanian classics with a twist. Cayman-style beef is a favorite dish of chef and owner Thomas Tennant, founder of the Cayman Islands’ movement to put the invasive lionfish on menus and advocate for using home-grown ingredients.
A dish that he says is “simple and satisfying,” the tender strips of beef are combined with onions, garlic, and peppers before marinating over many hours. A particularly popular meal during Christmas in the Caymans, Tomfoodery serves it no frills, with coconut rice, peas, and fried plantain.
Jerk chicken
Jamaica doesn’t have a monopoly on jerk chicken. If you can handle the heat, it’s a not-to-be-missed meal in the Caymans, too. Jerk—derived from the Spanish word charqui meaning “dried meat”—includes three essential ingredients: scotch bonnet, allspice, and thyme. Chicken or pork is marinated in this spicy, savory blend to achieve a hot, smoky flavor.
At Island Bites—a self-proclaimed Cay-Mex food truck owned by chef Huey Crawford—jerk chicken is a lunchtime favorite. Grab a $7 plate with some breadfruit fries and Cayman-style rice for a taste sensation. Those who prefer to go easy on the chiles should opt for the panko-crusted snapper or conch chowder, which are similarly tasty but gentler on the tastebuds.
Coconut rundown
Hailing from nearby Jamaica and Tobago, rundown is a stew traditionally made with mackerel mixed with thyme, tomatoes, pumpkin, and thick, heavily reduced coconut milk to produce a creamy sauce. On the Cayman Islands, okra and cassava are added and milder ingredients are switched out for scotch bonnets.
At Peppers—an open-air palapa with ongoing happy hours—this Caymanian special is made with mahi-mahi. Order with roasted breadfruit and loaded jerk fries and enjoy the live music every weekend. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/the-best-foods-to-try-in-the-cayman-islands | 2022-09-19T19:34:27Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/the-best-foods-to-try-in-the-cayman-islands | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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It’s a hot summer day. It’s humid, it’s over 90 degrees. And I’m standing in a plaza in Cartagena, Colombia. You know when it’s so hot and humid you’re like, “I didn’t know my knees could get sweaty?” Just me? Anyways . . .
Cartagena is a coastal city on the Caribbean Sea that was founded in 1533. And, of course, many different Indigenous people lived here long before that. Some historians believe humans have been here for as long as 6,000 years. So, it’s a city with some history. Like capital H history.
To me, it feels like a museum come to life. And as a fan of the Night at the Museum trilogy—that’s right, there are three of those movies, shout-out Night-at-the-Museum-fam!—I love cities that feel like museums.
Cartagena is very Spanish colonial in its architecture. It’s a bigger city, with almost 1 million in its metropolitan area. A giant wall envelops the whole downtown, the “old city.” There are fortresses everywhere. It’s got these colonial homes with big doors and beautiful courtyards. There are colorful flowers hanging on every balcony. And some of these places—houses, museums, offices—oh, they’ve got some great doors. Cartagena has great door game. Like they are really showing off the doors.
These are giant wooden doors with artistic heavy metal clasps. Some of the clasps are shaped like iguanas. Some of the doors are so big so that horses could walk into the homes. I’m going to be looking for horse-size doors for my next apartment. Streets are beautiful here. There are balconies on buildings and in narrow streets—it feels like you could almost jump from one balcony to another. If you’ve been to New Orleans and thrown a beer to your neighbor on the balcony across the street—yeah, it’s just like that.
The city is so historic and beautiful that UNESCO designated Cartagena as a World Heritage site. It’s like UNESCO walked the blocks I’m walking and was like, “Yup, we gotta preserve this.”
Speaking of tourism: This isn’t some quiet town where people speak in whispers to not wake the very, very old ghosts.
People also come here to party. It’s a coastal town, so Cartagena makes for a perfect vacation spot and people all over the world come here. While I’m here, I heard all sorts of languages, not just the singsong of Colombian Spanish I’m used to. (“Ayyy que rico verte!”)
As I walk around the city, I make my way to a plaza that feels familiar. It’s the Plaza San Pedro Claver or St. Peter Claver for those who didn’t take Spanish class. He’s the patron saint of human rights. I learn this fact from a plaque near his sculpture in the plaza.
It’s really easy to learn about the city’s history. Cartagena makes it convenient, there are plaques in every square that tell you all about the city’s past and its culture. There are descriptions of buildings. They answer questions like, Who lived here? What did they do for work? Their zodiac signs? Their age of their first kiss? OK, not all those questions, but they give you a lot of history and context that allows you to build a larger story of what this city means.
OK, so there’s me: a Colombian American dude standing in that plaza wondering how this city—how this country—fits into my story.
This isn’t my first time in this plaza. I’ve been to this exact plaza before. Like, a bunch of times.
I’ve come to this plaza as a sweaty and smelly eight year old. I remember it was really hot and there was no shade and I was begging my parents for ice cream.
I’ve come to this plaza as a bored and apathetic 18 year old. I remember rolling my eyes at my parents and wanting to go back to my iPod Nano until we got ice cream.
And now, here I am again at 31, visiting for the first time without my parents. Which means unlimited ice cream.
And as I look around, the question I keep asking myself is, “Am I allowed to be here all by myself, just speaking Spanish and exploring the city?”
Like yes, I’m allowed. But am I allowed allowed?
Let me give you some context. I’ve been coming to Colombia my whole life but always with my mom and dad. My parents were born in Bogota—it’s a 45-minute flight from Cartagena—and immigrated to the USA in the mid-80s so they could go to grad school.
As my dad was working on his PhD, my parents had my brother and I and we did a typical kids-of-immigrants schedule. Summers were in Colombia. We would spend time at my uncle’s and aunt’s houses and we would sometimes go to my Tio Coque’s house in Cartagena. I would get poked fun at for my Americanized Spanish (“Yo soy Colombiano, I swear”) and get called gringo. We would walk around Bogota and walk around Cartagena, and we would eat in plazas, and the adults would sit at the table and drink and laugh, and I would try to climb the big bronze Botero sculpture. It’s one of the only sculptures of a not-religious person so it felt less sacrilegious to climb.
Then, I would return to the U.S. for the fall, winter, spring. We lived in Puerto Rico for a little bit, then outside Chicago for most of my childhood. Spanish was spoken at home and English everywhere else. We would Skype our extended family and I would hear stories of my family and see pictures of them, but I didn’t know them too well. Sometimes it was almost like my Colombian cousins were people I knew more through photos than real life.
But mostly, I tried to live a stereotypical American life. Whatever that means. I think that’s the thing, I didn’t know what it meant. So I was like, “What’s American? Let me do that!” So I watched football and went to Superbowl parties and ate hot dogs and was like, “Oh I’m totally crushing this American thing.”
Eventually, I got summer jobs back in the States or fought back against my parents enough so I stopped going back to Colombia every summer. I was like “Why would I go to Colombia when I could stay here and eat hot dogs and wear jean shorts and be a normal American youth?”
My connection to Colombia sometimes felt like childhood nostalgia. Like, “Remember when we all had Beanie Babies?”
“Remember when I was really connected to Colombia?”
With this trip to Colombia, the one I’m on, in this plaza, I was going to Bogota as well. Bogota is where my cousin Camilo is, and Camilo rocks, and I love him, and I also wanted to ask him a few questions about my . . . Colombian-ness.
Esteban: You’ve known me since I was a baby. Are there times that maybe you’ve been like, “Wow, Esteban’s, he’s doing this. He’s in it?”
Camilo: I think so. Because, of course, when you were little, you were, for me, the American cousin, and you didn’t speak as much Spanish—just a few words. You were very American for me. Then over the years, as you were coming back a little bit older—as a teenager then a 20-year-old—you look more Colombian. That’s beautiful. You make an effort to speak like a Colombian and at a family party, you will try to dance like a Colombian and try to drink like a Colombian even if you can’t handle it. [Laughs] That’s really nice, over the years, how my perspective has changed.
When we were little, I saw you with a little bit of envy because you lived in this awesome country, you know, the American dream, and you had access to all these toys, wonderful toys, Toys R Us. You had a Toys R Us probably like a hundred yards away. Colombia opened commercially to globalization in the ’90s. So I remember when we could only buy Colombian things in Colombia, and then after many years, you could import things. When I visited, America was like the dreamland.
Then a little later in my life, when I was an adolescent and I started going to parties and enjoying more being a Colombian and getting into my culture—growing up into my Colombian paws—I think I felt for you because I thought you were missing out. Then when you were coming back, you were trying to be more Colombian, but you actually weren’t. It took an effort. It wasn’t so natural, even though you’re Colombian, have the same family, the same genes, and you do speak Spanish. I have a lot of foreign cousins who don’t, and they get frustrated. You do it very well.
So, yeah, that’s how it’s changed my perspective of you guys, your brother and you. Also, how I saw you evolving into a more Colombian American.
That’s my cousin Camilo. He’s always been one of my heroes. Here’s something that I hate to admit, but I have to because I’ve got this mic in front of me and I must speak all my secrets into it.
I’ve known Camilo my whole life and this is the first time we’ve talked about this—about connection to culture, to family, to ourselves. I guess it’s better late than never. Shout out to podcasts forcing you to have a good conversation.
For a few years, Camilo thought the U.S. was a dreamland. For me, it didn’t always feel that way.
In seventh grade I gave a presentation on Colombia to my class.
OK, let me get in character. It’s 2007. I like emo rock. I have a crush on a girl named Ali and we will “date” for six months and never kiss and barely hold hands. It’s pretty serious.
I give the presentation and I finish it and a kid raises his hand. “So, is your family part of a cartel?”
The class laughs and the teacher says nothing.
I learn a pretty big lesson that day: Don’t talk about Colombia to mean middle schoolers.
I know you, dear listener, do not need this clarification but let me give you one statistic that needs to be shared. The conflict in Colombia has been dark and long. Yet in a country of almost 51 million people, the number of people actually fighting against the cartels, including the entire country’s own national army, never surpassed 200,000. Fifty-one million people; never more than 200,000 total were actively involved. Good.
I asked Camilo about this thing I think about a lot, that in the USA I’m constantly fighting the media narrative of what it means to be Colombian. That part of my reaction to being Colombian in the USA in the ’90s and 2000s is to not really tell anyone where I’m from because people often have the same jokes, the same questions, the same looks.
Did he, a Colombian living in Colombia, feel the same way?
Camilo: I think we have in common a little bit the thing that we got to know Colombia a little bit later in life, not when we were kids. Even though I’d lived here through that and I did have to watch the news every night. Maybe you get numb about it a little bit but then when you grow up, and you start reading the history and looking at it from different angles. You read a book or see a documentary on the reality of Colombia, I think you have to make an effort to do that.
It doesn’t come on its own, that you get a better knowledge of your country. You have to make an effort to do it, and I think that we have that in common. I like that very much about you, that you try to be Colombian, you make an effort to be Colombian, and you’ve come to Colombia many times, and you know many parts of Colombia. You’ve traveled around and taken buses to towns many hours away from Bogota. Yes, that’s a choice. That’s an awesome choice because it makes you really Colombian. Also, the more you know, as you know, the more you love. I think that’s awesome.
My grandmother died in 2003. I was nine years old.
Esteban: I started reflecting on my relationship with our grandmother, so I’m curious, how would you describe Ita? Did you call her Ita?
Camilo: No, I called her abuelita.
Esteban: Wow.
Camilo: Yes. Just the normal word for grandma. It’s funny because we didn’t have a loving nickname for her. Just abuela, abuelita.
When we got the news, my family and I bought a plane ticket and flew the almost eight-hour flight from Chicago to Colombia.
I remember sitting in a small church in Bogota, the capital city. It’s this stone church that has been there forever. You can see each individual stone that makes up the walls and these are big stones. Like, the smallest ones are the size of my head.
It’s just a few blocks from my Uncle Coque’s house. It’s also a few blocks from the daycare my Tia Milli and cousin Lina run.
It’s the type of church where the priest is like “Hey kid, your ankle was hurting, yeah? How’s it feel?” “And hey Mr. Haircut, looking good!” “How’s your aunt? I know she was sick. I’m praying for her.”
The priest has those friendly exchanges with just about everyone. Not me, of course. I’m the gringo cousin.
We’re at this church for my grandmother’s funeral. This was the church that she went to. Her name is Isabel Cubides Camacho.
After the service, my cousins and family all sit in a living room and drink whiskey and share stories of my grandmother. And I . . . listen.
I tried to think, but I really had no stories about her. I wasn’t quite sure how I fit into her life.
Esteban: Was there anything she did that you thought, “Oh, that’s where I get that from”? Or that’s where your dad gets that from? Did she do anything that you were like, “Oh, that’s a Cubides trait?”
Camilo: Probably, yes. Let me think about it. I think her humor was a little bit black. That’s a trait, I think, of the family. Also, she was a socialite. That’s also, I think, a little bit of a trait we have. Nowadays, she would have been great for PR. She had a lot of friends, and she loved hanging out with friends and calling friends, and she knew everything, all the newest gossip. I think those social skills, we inherited that a little bit.
So, yes I remember sitting at my grandmother’s funeral thinking “I don’t really know what to say about her. I don’t really know her too well.”
Then I thought about my mom, who was so close to her mother. They lived together until my mom got married, only to move 3,000 miles away from her in her 30s. Three thousand miles in those days was a lot. We’re talking pre-Facetime 3,000 miles.
There are distances we choose and those we can’t. My mom decided to live in the USA—a distance from Colombia that we can’t control too much.
However, she didn’t want the locational distance to mean emotional distance. We did the novena and ate ajiaco and listened to Carlos Vives because we were already dealing with one distance and my mom couldn’t bear another.
I think there’s a lot of things that ground us, that pull our feet back to earth.
It can be the recognition of my parents’ sacrifices. Oh, I’m sad I don’t fit in? My mom was far away from her mom for the last 15 years of her life.
The humility to understand that someone’s view of the country you’re from is informed by what they know; often, by the things they don’t know.
Or, that if we look even a little bit, our ancestors show up every day in who we are.
Esteban: I was just telling Misha, my girlfriend, something I love about you is, you haven’t met a stranger. Camilo walks in and is like, “How are you?” All these different things. You go in and you’re like, “How are you really?” with every single person. Is that kind of her? Like, a quick social ability?
Camilo: I think she was really kind. She worked many years for a foundation, doing therapy, physical therapy to little kids who are orphans from the police. She had this social vibe.
My grandmother lives on in my mom’s creativity and charisma. In Uncle Coque’s kindness and Uncle Juan Manuel’s music and Uncle Alvaro’s mischievous humor.
Camilo: When she was young, she went to live in Brussels to learn piano and whatnot. At that time—it was 1920s or ’30s—that was really weird for Colombia.
My grandmother lives on in Camilo. Someone who has to accept himself, publicly state who he is in a Catholic and conservative country. Someone whose decision, in certain parts of Colombia, may be seen as “really weird for Colombia.”
When he was 27, Camilo came out as gay. I asked him how he accepted a part of himself that society told him to reject.
Camilo: I came out of the closet when I was 27. Up until that moment when I was 27, I lived in a bubble. I actually went to law school, and I was this terribly boring lawyer with tie and suit all the time. My hair was short and yes, I saw Colombia from a privileged position. Many things that were maybe screamed by a lot of communities in Colombia about inequality, about the hardships in Colombia, I was a little bit deaf to them, a little bit numb.
The little thread that connects you to that society that you’ve always lived in, when they start breaking, you don’t feel as connected. You got to start looking for connections, of course, and digging in your nature, in my case, or your culture or your parents’ culture, in your case. Of course, it gives you hope to belong again to a new group of people that can hug you and give you strength. That’s really nice. That’s really powerful.
Esteban: Do you feel like you belong now in Colombian culture?
Camilo: I think I belong, yes, much more now than before. Totally. I was just part of a small group of people who thought everything in Colombia was OK. “How is it that so many people leave Colombia to go to America? We’re doing OK here,” is what I would think when I was little. I lived very comfortably here. I didn’t challenge the status quo. Yes, ripping those threads that connected me to the bubble and being able to search for Colombian-ness in all of its diversity. Colombia is absolutely diverse. It’s incredible.
We’re all on the journey to better accept who we are and where we come from. And sometimes a literal journey helps. Like a walk, car, or plane journey.
Turns out we struggle with belonging, and the process of belonging is difficult and forward and backwards, but it can also be as simple as recontextualizing the connections we have.
When I look back on moments where I’ve felt distance, where I’ve felt isolated, where I’ve felt alone, I realize that in almost every situation I was connected all along. Connected to people going through similar things, connected to ancestors who walk alongside me and whose fingerprints are on everything that I do, connected by accidentally visiting San Pedro de Claver’s plaza, a place I’d been to many times before.
We’re all on the journey to better accept who we are and where we come from.
And sometimes a literal journey helps. Like a walk, car, or plane journey.
This trip to Colombia actually happened because I went to a Colombian friend’s wedding. Not a family friend. A real Colombian friend I made as an adult. This is a big deal, people! My friends Isaac and Cami got married and I hosted the wedding in Spanish and English and I only made, like, a few Spanish mistakes. Congratulations to the newlyweds!
This trip was really big for me. I visited my extended family—that’s people like Camilo who you’ve been hearing from and my uncles and aunts I’ve mentioned. It’s one of the first visits I’ve made without my mom and dad.
This was my first meaningful trip I’ve made to Colombia with no family at all. Just my girlfriend and I exploring the city and finding out what this city means to us.
I know: It’s a little silly and I feel like a literal little kid. I’m 31 and it’s the first time going to the country I’m from without my parents. I’m finally exploring who I am and where I come from with no parent chaperone.
And no parents means it’s time to party. And you know, learn about Colombian history and who I am.
I keep coming back to this one story: San Pedro Claver. You know, the guy we met at the very beginning? The patron saint of human rights?
So San Pedro Claver passed away in 1654 in Cartagena and the city officials who previously hated him—they thought he was a nuisance because of advocacy for slaves—those same people ordered a public funeral with full pomp and ceremony. People came and celebrated his life, even those people who for so long rejected him.
This reminds me that nothing is set in stone, that the things we reject—people, ideas, culture—we might someday celebrate and embrace.
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The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Olumuyiwa Adejobi has said that he was “misrepresented” across media platforms when he reacted to a trending video where some individuals in Lagos assaulted a police officer, and attempted to disarm him by dragging his loaded AK47 rifle.
He said that the statement “No Nigerian Has the Right to Retaliate when Police Slaps You…,” was a misrepresentation of his position when reacting to the issue.
In a statement he issued on Monday, the FPRO stated that: “It has become pertinent to emphasize that the Nigeria Police Force has been a vanguard of sustainable democracy in the country via the aggressive protection of the fundamental rights of the citizens and other members of the Nigerian society.
“This has been evidential in the continuous sanctions meted out by the Police authority on officers engaged in violation of individual rights, as well as extant laws when reported via any of the available police complaint channels.
“The Force Public Relations Officer reacted to a trending video where some individuals grievously assaulting a police officer, and attempting to disarm the officer by dragging his loaded AK47 rifle, restated the law on serious assault as enshrined on Section 356 (2) of the Criminal Code Act of Southern Nigeria with explanations.
“However, some media platforms deliberately misquoted it as endorsing violence by uniformed officers against members of the public.
“Where a public officer acts contrary to the provisions of extant laws, there are channels to report such conduct and get prompt justice, particularly in the Nigeria Police Force. In the extant case, the individuals resorted to self-help and assaulted the officers, attempted to snatch the officers’ firearms, and in so doing breached the law.
“It is trite that two wrongs cannot make a right, as such whatever the provocation, the action of the individuals were wrong in all ramifications as they would have reported the matter for prompt action. Emphasis on this has clearly been misrepresented across media platforms as a single tweet in a thread was mischievously read out of context with a mischievous caption “No Nigerian Has the Right to Retaliate when Police Slaps You… “.
“The Force urges well-meaning members of the public all of whom are strategic stakeholders in policing across the country to disregard the malicious publications as the current police administration is committed to ensuring that the rights of all citizens, uniformed or not, is protected across the board.
“Furthermore, the Force urges the Nigerian populace not to take laws into their hands whenever they have unpleasant encounters with police officers. Complaints arising from such encounters can be reported via the Police Public Relations Officers (PPROs) of the various Commands, the Complaint Response Unit (CRU) and via official Police accounts across social media platforms. Similarly, the idea of pouncing on and beating up Law Enforcement Agents carrying out their public duty by members of the public whom they serve, is criminal and disrespectful to our beloved nation, Nigeria, and must not be allowed to exacerbate.”
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(NewsNation) — As the November midterm election draws near, voters in several states will be subjected to new laws dictating who, where, and how people may cast their ballots.
Proposed voting legislation took off after the most recent presidential election, following former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election and widespread voter fraud.
Below is a look at voting practices in each state and how today’s political climate is shaping election laws.
Vote-by-mail
Thirty-five states and Washington, D.C., allow voters to cast absentee mail-in ballots without an excuse.
Eight states automatically mail a ballot to every eligible voter even if it isn’t requested, although there may still be an option to vote in person.
In the early days of American democracy, people would cast their votes out loud on the courthouse steps, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Paper ballots didn’t become commonplace until the late 19th century.
The use of mail-in ballots came under fire during the 2020 presidential election, after the former president claimed an “unprecedented massive amount of unsolicited ballots” would mean the election results “may never be accurately determined.”
Voter fraud has proved exceedingly rare. The Brennan Center for Justice in 2017 ranked the risk of ballot fraud at 0.00004% to 0.0009%, based on studies of past elections.
Last year, a federal judge struck down portions of a Florida election law that the judge said suppressed Black voters.
The law tightened rules on mailed ballots, drop boxes and other popular election methods, changes that made it more difficult for Black voters who, overall, have more socioeconomic disadvantages than white voters, the judge said in his ruling.
Ballot drop-off box
Some states provide ballot drop boxes where voters can submit a sealed and signed envelope with their ballot, a practice that became more common in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Twenty-three states have specific laws regulating drop-box locations, how many are in each county, hours of operation and security measures. Additionally, 31 states allow someone to return an absentee or mail ballot on behalf of a voter.
Those practices were recently challenged in Wisconsin, where a conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled in July that absentee ballot drop boxes may be placed only in election offices and that no one other than the voter can return a ballot in person.
Republicans have argued that practice — known as ballot harvesting — is rife with fraud, although there has been no evidence of that happening in Wisconsin. Democrats and others argue that many voters, particularly the elderly and disabled, have difficulty returning their ballots without the assistance of others.
Supporters argue drop boxes are a better option than mailing ballots because they go directly to the clerks and can’t be lost or delayed in transit.
Voter registration
In the U.S., all but one state require citizens to register to vote. North Dakota is the only one without a requirement and instead allows eligible citizens to vote with proper identification.
In Wisconsin, a conservative law firm is challenging the use of a federal voter registration form, saying it doesn’t meet the requirements laid out by state law.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty recently filed a lawsuit asking a judge to declare the National Mail Voter Registration Application illegal in the state and order the Wisconsin Election Commission to withdraw its approval for the form because it doesn’t include places to fill in information including whether a voter has been convicted of a felony and how long they have lived in their district.
Many states are required by federal law to use the form, which is provided by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, but Wisconsin isn’t subject to such an obligation because the state allows voters to register at the polls on Election Day.
Residents can also register online, at their municipal clerk’s office or by mail with a state form, which is available in English, Spanish and Hmong on the election commission’s website.
Photo Identification
Eighteen states had voter photo identification laws in effect as of this spring, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures and 19 states had identification laws that accepted proof other than photos.
Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia have some of the most strict photo ID requirements.
In Missouri, two groups are challenging a new election law requiring a photo ID to vote. The Missouri League of Women Voters and the Missouri NAACP are suing the state, claiming the law restricts voting rights, NewsNation’s local affiliate KOLR reported.
The Missouri law allows people without a government-issued ID (not a voter registration card or student ID) to cast a provisional ballot. That ballot would be counted if they return to the polling location later that day to show a photo ID or an election official can verify the voter’s signature.
Those opposed to the requirement have said getting a state photo ID isn’t always easy and cited concerns about voters’ provisional ballots being deemed insufficient. They also argue the new law is a barrier that disproportionately affects voters of color, seniors, voters with disabilities, young voters, and low-wage workers.
Proponents of the measure say it helps prevent in-person voter impersonation and increases public confidence in the election process. Opponents say there is little fraud of this kind, and the burden on voters unduly restricts the right to vote and imposes unnecessary costs and administrative burdens on elections administrators.
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At 472 N. 2000 W., #225
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Back at Work Physical Therapy opened an outpatient clinic today at 472 N. 2000 W., #225.
The clinic is open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. To make an appointment, call 385-642-5505 or visit BackAtWorkPT.com.
The clinic offers outpatient and telehealth orthopedic physical therapy, including pre- and post-operative rehabilitation, manual therapy, sports rehabilitation and injury prevention.
Clinic director Bradley Handwerger earned a doctor of physical therapy degree from LSU Health New Orleans and is certified in dry needling and vestibular therapy. He has experience with surgical rehabilitation and treating low back, cervical, shoulder, hip and knee pain.
Back at Work, part of the Upstream Rehabilitation family of clinical care, also has clinics in Clearfield, Logan (two), Pleasant View, Provo and Tremonton.
Back at Work offers access to care within 48 hours and works with all insurance types.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- It's a time for Aloha Festivals and the Aloha Spirit. A little song, a little dance, a little tradition, and a lot of food and other vendors going on at the Aloha Festival's 68th block festival on Saturday.
"I got food. I got food. I got lumpia. I just finished off pancit and Lechon. We're having a good time at the annual Waikiki Hoolaulea. Whoo!! 2022 baby," said attendee Arnold Alconcel.
The event lasted more than five hours on its first night back after a 2-year hiatus.
"I came down here when Wakiki was absolutely dead during the [COVID-19] pandemic. No one was on the street during the pandemic. Now look at it. There are people all over the street. It's wonderful," said Alconcel.
There are more than 50 vendors. Organizers hope nearly 80,000 people will attend. It was not only a good thing for vendors in tents, it's also good for the brick and mortar stores lining the streets.
"I'm looking for a nice shirt and nice outfit to match my shorts," said attendee Luis Garces.
Other people are eyeing up the 16 food vendors whose cash registers are burning up with business.
"I saw the pork, the chicken and the fish tacos," said attendee Carolyn Clark.
People also are getting their fill of other aspects of this block party. Five stages of music, artists, craft vendors, toys for the kids, and smiles are all back.
"There needs to be more aloha in the world. There's too much crime and violence and hate in the world. We need more fun and family. And that's what this festival is about to me. The sharing of Aloha which is unique to Hawaii," said Alconcel.
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HAWAII COUNTY, Hawaii (KITV4) -- Being vigilant is one way every day people can keep an eye out for children in danger. Friday's Big Island abduction of Mikella Debina prompted a very rare Maile Hawaii Abduction Alert.
Debina is now with her family, after reaching out for help while at a restaurant with her alleged captor on Saturday. She was saved thanks to the employee who noticed details that set off red flags.
"Being abducted is a life-altering event. And it shatters your perspective of trust in your environment," said Child Trafficking expert Katherine Alamea Xian.
Mikella Debina's attempted kidnapping is just one in a long string of child and teen kidnappings nationwide. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children website reports there were more than 600 non-family abductions in 2020 alone.
Debina's case however sticks out. She survived, and was rescued from her kidnapper less than 24 hours after a Hawaii Maile Amber Alert went out.
"When a kid is kidnapped, the longer it takes to locate that child, the less likely it is that child is found.," said Xian.
She says timing is one of the elements vital to safe return of a victim.
"If it's a human trafficking situation, they're often kept on the island very briefly and then they are shipped off to the mainland or another country," said Xian.
Debina was rescued when an employee of Cafe Pesto noticed something was off. Honolulu CrimeStoppers says noticing little signs is essential to finding kidnapping victims before its too late.
"When you're out and about, working, or you're minding your own business, look around. When you see a child that looks out of place, disheveled, or scared, pay attention. When you speak to the child and the child is basically giving scripted lines or one word answers, the abductor may be telling them what to say or what not to say. Often times the children are scared to say anything because they are being threatened," said Sgt. Chris Kim from Honolulu CrimeStoppers.
CrimeStoppers says you should also keep an eye out for screaming kids in distress when it looks like more than a normal temper tantrum, a child being grabbed or carried in an unusual fashion, and kids that are malnourished or in tattered clothes. They may be victims of longer term abductions. You should contact the police just to be sure.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- There is no tsunami threat to Hawaii after a massive 7.6 magnitude earthquake rocked the Pacific coast of Mexico.
The National Weather Service Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued the “all clear” just before 9:10 a.m.
The quake was recorded just after 8 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time about 23 miles southeast of Aquila, Mexico, along the Michoacan Coast. Its epicenter was located at a depth of six miles, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
In its initial report, NOAA said a tsunami threat exists for parts of the Pacific Ocean nearest to the earthquake, but that it is too soon to determine if Hawaii is in any danger.
"The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has determined that there is NO TSUNAMI THREAT to Hawaii from the earthquake at 8:05 am HST near Michoacán, Mexico. Tsunami waves have been observed closer to the epicenter but they are not expected to cause impacts here," the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency wrote on Twitter.
Reports of damage and or injuries near the epicenter in Mexico have not yet been made.
According to the USGS, earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 2.5 to 3.0 are generally the smallest ones felt by humans. Damage is more likely with quakes at magnitudes of 4.0 and greater.
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PEORIA, Ill., Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Most people in their daily jobs don't see themselves as innovators and that's certainly the case with OSF HealthCare Mission Partners (employees). But the Peoria, Illinois-based Catholic integrated health system is working to change that by expanding hospital-based innovation hubs.
OSF Innovation Senior Vice President Becky Buchen says frontline caregivers are living those challenges every day, so it makes sense to tap them for solutions.
"When you really start to leverage the ideas that they have, because they're at the front line of care, they're seeing the challenges that are being faced every day, whether it's by our patients or their fellow Mission Partners, and then bringing forward those ideas really starts to advance that innovative culture. Then they build on each other's ideas and that really supports the transformation of health care."
Buchen says experts in the division she oversees researched and found a platform called Ideawake – to solicit and vet possible solutions to pressing issues facing caregivers and patients. Buchen says the platform provides a safe space that makes it easy and fun to crowdsource ideas.
"You start out with a problem that you want to solve, but then it acts very much like a social media platform. So I can bring forward my ideas. Other people can vote up my ideas or add to my ideas, and that starts to build great excitement. It's a very intuitive platform; very easy to use so it's not intimidating."
Zack VanKeulen is the director of Emergency Services for OSF HealthCare Saint Paul Medical Center in Mendota, two hours southwest of Chicago, Illinois. VanKeulen was a finalist for the first Trailblazer Challenge launched at a hospital-based hub in the I-80 region.
VanKeulen says even if the solution he pitched in a 'Shark Tank' style presentation isn't fully developed, the experience was worth the effort. He enjoyed the coaching sessions available through Ideawake and gained useful skills along the way.
"You learn about things outside of health care, like software design and coding and the amount of money and resources it takes to create some of these apps. And those things may not be possible, so you have to bite off a smaller piece than you originally thought was possible. But in the end, if you can innovate and make a change that positively impacts the patient's experience, then it's a win-win situation," says VanKeulen.
OSF Saint Paul Medical Center President Dawn Trompeter was an early champion of innovation hubs. For the Trailblazer Challenge, leaders solicited solutions for improving processes when patients are discharged from the hospital. The best solutions, will get support for development, testing, and could potentially be rolled out to other OSF hospitals or clinics.
Trompeter explains, "If the pilot is successful and increasing those experiences for our patients, then that's something we can spread across our entire market region and then across the Ministry to enhance our patient experience across the entire health system."
The hub has a designated space but also houses mobile, virtual reality (VR) headsets that can be used for patient or provider education. For example, Trompeter says a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can be immersed in their own body to view their lungs in 3D.
"That's just one example. It could be for diabetes, it could be a number of different things, but really engaging our patients in their own health care and helping them understand in layman's terms, really what happens and what their diagnosis may be about or how they may be able to help keep themselves healthy through that (seeing the impact)."
Innovation hubs can provide cost-savings and help ensure hospitals continue to operate in challenging times. Buchen says they can also be an economic engine for communities, particularly if a solution – a product or process – is commercialized. The best ideas emerging from the hubs will get support from OSF Innovation, based at the Jump Simulation & Education Center in Peoria. The center is home to experts such as data scientists, engineers, performance improvement and legal specialists among others.
"It might be that we need to better understand the data. It might be that we take a deeper dive into the process as we transform the ideas they're bringing forward. It may be that the idea they brought forward is something so unique that we need to make sure that we have the intellectual property protected for them," according to Buchen.
VanKeulen agrees the best way to transform health care is from the inside out, and having support is important because those engaged in it every day care deeply and want to improve patients' experience.
"You hear the general public saying that the health care system is broken. So this is members of the health care system, Mission Partners from OSF, trying to make that repair that's so desperately needed in our country today."
OSF HealthCare is also a major backer of Distillery Labs, a downtown Peoria-based innovation hub that is part of the Illinois Innovation Network. The health care system with 15 hospitals in Illinois and Michigan was also a founding member of the Discovery Partners Institute which empowers people to jumpstart their tech careers or companies in Chicago.
OSF HealthCare is an integrated health system owned and operated by The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, headquartered in Peoria, Illinois. OSF HealthCare employs nearly 24,000 Mission Partners in 150 locations, including 15 hospitals – 10 acute care, five critical access – with 2,089 licensed beds, and two colleges of nursing throughout Illinois and Michigan. The OSF HealthCare physician network employs more than 1,500 primary care, specialist and advanced practice providers. OSF HealthCare, through OSF Home Care Services, operates an extensive network of home health and hospice services. It also owns Pointcore, Inc., comprised of health care-related businesses; OSF HealthCare Foundation, the philanthropic arm for the organization; and OSF Ventures, which provides investment capital for promising health care innovation startups. More at osfhealthcare.org.
OSF Innovation was launched in 2016 and includes a multidisciplinary team that inspires, mentors and partners to transform care for patients and providers. With expertise in everything from ideation to commercialization, the division designs agile solutions, connecting everyday needs with inventive approaches and bold advances.
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OSF HealthCare is an integrated health system owned and operated by The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, headquartered in Peoria, Illinois. OSF HealthCare employs nearly 24,000 Mission Partners in 150 locations, including 15 hospitals – 10 acute care, five critical access – with 2,089 licensed beds, and two colleges of nursing throughout Illinois and Michigan. The OSF HealthCare physician network employs more than 1,500 primary care, specialist and advanced practice providers. OSF HealthCare, through OSF Home Care Services, operates an extensive network of home health and hospice services. It also owns Pointcore, Inc., comprised of health care-related businesses; OSF HealthCare Foundation, the philanthropic arm for the organization; and OSF Ventures, which provides investment capital for promising health care innovation startups. More at osfhealthcare.org.
OSF Innovation was launched in 2016 and includes a multidisciplinary team that inspires, mentors and partners to transform care for patients and providers. With expertise in everything from ideation to commercialization, the division designs agile solutions, connecting everyday needs with inventive approaches and bold advances.
Contacts: Colleen Reynolds | Media Relations Coordinator, OSF HealthCare | cell: (309) 825-7255
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Garden State Parkway crash in Old Bridge leaves Bergen County man dead
OLD BRIDGE – A Bergen County man died early Monday after his car and another vehicle sideswiped on the Garden State Parkway before his car hit a guardrail and overturned, said New Jersey State Police.
The victim was identified as Gabriel Farias, 39, of Teaneck, State Police said.
State Police said the crash was reported around 12:26 a.m. Monday on the Garden State Parkway express roadway northbound in the area of milepost 121.6 in Old Bridge.
A preliminary investigation indicates a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a Mini Cooper were traveling north next to each other on the highway when the collision occurred, State Police said.
The Mini Cooper, driven by Farias, then struck a concrete barrier, a guardrail and overturned, State Police said.
The investigation is continuing.
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Old Bridge woman found dead in home, police investigating
OLD BRIDGE – Police are investigating after a 65-year-old woman was found dead in her home in the Laurence Harbor section Saturday morning, announced the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.
The woman was identified as Deborah Brown-Hepworth, said Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Old Bridge Acting Police Chief Donald Fritz Jr. in a news release Monday.
Police received a 911 call around 11:05 a.m. Saturday reporting that a woman was found unresponsive in her home on Hanna Lane by a relative, according to the prosecutor’s office.
Arriving officers located Brown-Hepworth who was pronounced dead at the scene, the prosecutor’s office said.
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No additional information was provided, and the case is being investigated as a homicide, the prosecutor’s office said.
The investigation into Brown-Hepworth's death is continuing. Anyone with information or surveillance footage of the area is asked to contact Old Bridge Detective Addie Spinola at 732- 721-5600 ext. 3181 or Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office Detective Mark Morris at 732-745-3927.
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The 21-story, 785,000-square-foot facility in Bethesda, Maryland will be home to corporate associates supporting over 8,100 hotels in 139 countries and territories
BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After six years of planning, design, and construction, Marriott International has opened its global headquarters in downtown Bethesda, Maryland. The 21-story, 785,000-square-foot, LEEDv4 Gold-certified building is the new workplace for corporate associates, supporting over 8,100 hotels in 139 countries and territories around the world.
"We are thrilled to be welcoming associates to our new headquarters," said Anthony Capuano, Chief Executive Officer of Marriott International. "The campus has been designed to better connect our global workforce in support of our hotels and teams around the world. Empowering associates and accelerating innovation were our key priorities and central in every decision we made to deliver a compelling environment for associates to work, learn and thrive."
Marriott's new HQ campus, which includes the new Marriott Bethesda Downtown at Marriott HQ hotel next door, is designed to enable connectivity, collaboration, growth, ideation, and wellbeing through diverse and dynamic spaces and state-of-the-art technology. The new building will also serve as a global hub for Marriott's research and development operation, featuring its Innovation and Design Lab, a premium test kitchen and beverage bar, as well as "model" hotel rooms in the adjacent Marriott hotel, where new concepts, design elements, service approaches, and amenities will be tested for potential use across the company's portfolio of 30 brands.
"Unveiling our new global headquarters is an exceptional way to celebrate our 95 years of culture and innovation," said David Marriott, Chairman of the Board, Marriott International. "This campus honors our storied history and roots in the local community, while showcasing Marriott's exciting next chapter of growth as we remain dedicated to our purpose of connecting people through the power of travel."
Empowering Associates Through Flexibility, Collaboration, Growth and Well-being
Marriott believes a blend of in-person and virtual connectivity enhances the associate experience, enables collaboration for its global workforce, and fuels business performance. This flexible model of work is responsive to associate feedback and will enable Marriott to continue to attract, grow, and retain top talent. The decision to adopt a hybrid work model was made in the spirit of the company's values to "Put People First and Embrace Change," and this new building will enable that model through design choices and seamless technology.
Offices, including executive offices, line the core interior of the building, so each associate workstation comes with a view outside through floor-to-ceiling windows, and every desk will have access to natural light, a sit-stand desk and an ergonomic chair. Informal, mixed-seating collaboration stations line the windows on each work floor. More formal meeting rooms with state-of-the-art technology, writable surfaces, and video capabilities are also available for larger meetings.
As part of the company's commitment to put people first, Marriott has created a best-in-class associate growth center, located on the top floor of the new headquarters, and named for the company's long-time Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of the Board, J.W. Marriott, Jr., who is now the company's Chairman Emeritus. The J.W. Marriott, Jr. Associate Growth Center represents the company's commitment to its people-first culture – one that both physically and figuratively puts associates at the top. The Growth Center will host a multitude of experiences – both live and virtual to enable participation by the company's global workforce – including leadership development programs, skill development curriculum, featured speakers, new hire orientation, and networking events.
True to its fundamental belief that the foundation for success depends on the well-being of its associates, Marriott has prioritized childcare, family support and wellness as core offerings in its new headquarters. Building amenities include a 7,500-square-foot state-of-the-art health and fitness center; a Wellness Suite which includes a lactation space, meditation rooms, massage chairs and treadmill desks; wellness, medical resources and health advisors; and a nearly 11,000-square-foot childcare center for up to 91 children (from infant through age five), with approximately 6,600 square feet of outdoor covered space for all-weather play, among many other associate-focused features. For its commitment to advancing associate well-being through design and operations, Marriott's headquarters has earned a Fitwel® 3-star rating. This is the highest rating achievable from Fitwel®, the leading global health certification system.
Accelerating Innovation Through State-of-the-Art Research and Design Facilities
Since its founding, Marriott has made innovation a key priority and the company's new headquarters underscores this commitment. Marriott's Design Lab is an 8,400 square foot research and design lab for the hotel industry, where Marriott's partnerships and collaborations with forward-looking companies that touch every aspect of hospitality – from textiles to technology to service – are explored, product-tested, and further developed for scaling, first within its hotel brands, and eventually throughout the industry. Room27, the main Design Lab space, is named after the year of the company's founding in 1927. It will be co-located with the F+B Design Studio, an approximately 4,400-square-foot fully functioning test kitchen and bar space, designed studio-style for onsite educational presentations, virtual food and beverage demonstrations, and testing the latest trends in culinary and beverage innovations from hotels around the world.
The Marriott Bethesda Downtown at Marriott HQ, located directly next door, will serve as an extension of Marriott's Design Lab, containing 13 sample "test rooms," each customizable to reflect different brands. Dubbed Floor57 after the year the company first entered the lodging business, these active rooms are ready to deploy design, technology, and new product and service offerings with customers and other key stakeholders.
Part of the Bethesda Community
Marriott's new headquarters has several features that are designed to enable interaction between the company and the Bethesda community where the new HQ is located. The company intends to name the outdoor public plaza between the hotel and new headquarters building Sorenson Plaza, in honor of the Company's late Chief Executive Officer, Arne M. Sorenson, who passed away in 2021. Arne was highly involved in the design of the new headquarters and was excited about the prospect that the plaza would be a gathering place for associates and a vibrant space for the community. In addition, a portion of the main lobby is also open to the public. The lobby features a public Café, which offers interior and open-air seating that extends into the plaza, and an eye-catching "Cabinet of Curiosities," a collection of historic and compelling items from Marriott's past and present. This space leads into the main lobby of the building, serving as an entryway for associates, as well as a food and beverage, retail, and future pop-up space for special events.
By the Numbers: New Marriott HQ Features
Marriott's new headquarters includes several unique elements:
- 7,600 square feet of outdoor garden space accessible by associates on the 20th floor; additionally, the building has a green, planted roof
- Associate cafeteria, named The Hot Shoppe in a nod to the company's first restaurant, with 9,500 square feet for dining, including 350 indoor seats and 100 outdoor seats
- Grand floating staircase with mixed seating allowing for large-scale gatherings
- 20-foot-tall moving work of digital art in an ultra-high-resolution video wall that wraps around the elevator bay. The digital art wall is visible from the outside and provides immersive experiences with places and environments from around the world
- 2,842 workspaces, including offices, workstations and flexible spaces
- 180 conference rooms
- Daylight in majority of occupied spaces
- Nearly 20,000 square feet of open, flexible, modular, and virtually collaborative workspace for individuals or group meetings
- Proximity to the Bethesda Metro Station, Capital Crescent Bike Trail, and multiple bus routes.
- Five levels of parking under the building, including 66 EV charging stations
- Lockable bicycle parking inside garage for 100 bikes; dedicated locker rooms adjacent to bike storage for cycling commuters
- Certified LEED Gold Core and Shell, LEED Gold Commercial and Interiors (pending), and Fitwel® 3-star certification
Design Team
The building was designed by Gensler, a global design firm and workplace strategy partner. Gensler is the project architect of record, with Hensel Phelps serving as the project's general contractor for the building's core structure. Rand* Construction, a woman-owned business, served as the project's general contractor for the building's interior. The building is owned by The Bernstein Companies and Boston Properties. Marriott officially celebrated the completion of its phased move-in on September 19, 2022, in a ribbon cutting celebration.
About Marriott International
Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) is based in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and encompasses a portfolio of more than 8,100 properties under 30 leading brands spanning 139 countries and territories. Marriott operates and franchises hotels and licenses vacation ownership resorts all around the world. The company offers Marriott Bonvoy®, its highly awarded travel program. For more information, please visit our website at www.marriott.com, and for the latest company news, visit www.marriottnewscenter.com. In addition, connect with us on Facebook and @MarriottIntl on Twitter and Instagram.
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TALLAHASSEE, FLa. — Big Bend Hospice is hosting a one-day, free retreat for grieving teens.
From 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on October 27, teens that have experienced losing a loved one will be able to participate in activities involving creative arts, music, movement and more at the "Teen Woe Be Gone" retreat event.
According to Big Bend, trained facilitators and local professional vendors will lead participants in activities that will help guide the teens in coping with grief and discussing their losses.
Participants are encouraged to be dropped off and picked up at Big Bend Hospice, located at 1723 Mahan Center Blvd., and will travel to Bradley's Pond by bus.
Breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Children's Miracle Network and Florida State's College of Medicine provided grants to ensure this event took place.
For more information or to register, contact Katie Kliner at 850-878-5310 or go to www.bigbendhospice.org. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/big-bend-hospice-to-host-retreat-for-grieving-teens | 2022-09-19T20:08:35Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/big-bend-hospice-to-host-retreat-for-grieving-teens | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLa. — The judge overseeing the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz refused to step down Monday, rejecting a motion by his attorneys who accused her of being biased against their client and prejudicing the jurors who will decide if he should die for murdering 17 people four years ago.
Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer denied the motion, saying only it was legally insufficient. Scherer last week chewed out lead defense attorney Melisa McNeill and her team outside the jury's presence, accusing them of being “unprofessional” when they unexpectedly rested their case after only about 25 of the 80 witnesses they had told her and prosecutors they intended to testify had been called.
The defense said in court documents filed last week that those comments and ones the judge later made to the jury were “the zenith of the cumulative disdain” they allege Scherer has shown throughout the case toward Cruz and themselves. The defense had no obligation to call all its proposed witnesses or notify the judge or prosecution when they planned to rest, legal observers have said.
Prosecutors argued in court documents that Scherer's comments didn't rise to the level of demonstrating bias against Cruz. They cited a 1994 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says a judge's “expressions of impatience, dissatisfaction, annoyance and even anger" against the defense are not grounds for stepping down.
If Scherer had stepped down, a mistrial would have been declared. The new judge would have required months of preparation before a new trial could be held.
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty last October to murdering 14 students and three staff members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018. His trial, which began with jury selection in April and testimony in July, is only to determine if he is sentenced to death or life without parole. For him to receive a death sentence, the jury must be unanimous.
Two attorneys who have monitored the trial said the defense team had no expectation that Scherer would step down — they just want her performance to be part of their appeal if Cruz receives a death sentence. To do that, they had to object now.
There was “absolutely no chance” Scherer would quit the case, said Bob Jarvis, a professor at Nova Southeastern University's law school.
“If she did, she would be admitting that she’s done a terrible job,” Jarvis said. Scherer, a former prosecutor, had never overseen a first-degree murder trial before being assigned the Cruz case.
David S. Weinstein, a Miami defense attorney and former prosecutor, said the defense is also hoping the motion “tempers the way (Scherer) speaks to both sides in open court.”
Starting with pretrial hearings that began more than three years ago, Scherer and McNeill have frequently sniped at each other over the judge's denials of defense motions and objections.
That sniping turned to shouting on Wednesday when, at the beginning of the court day, McNeill suddenly announced the defense was resting. The prosecution, having expected the defense case to last much longer, wasn't prepared to begin its rebuttal case.
That necessitated a two-week hiatus in the trial, causing Scherer to berate McNeill and her team.
“This is the most uncalled for, unprofessional way to try a case,” Scherer said. “I have never experienced a level of unprofessionalism in my career. It is unbelievable."
When McNeill accused Scherer of insulting her in front of her client, Scherer shot back, “You have been insulting me the entire trial," followed by a list of grievances.
The jury was then brought into the courtroom and told of the defense decision.
“If I would have known earlier this was going to be happening, I would not have dragged you in here,” Scherer told the jurors. She then backtracked, telling jurors they should blame her for any delays.
Too late, the defense said in its motion — Scherer had already told the panel any frustrations they felt should be directed at them.
Scherer's courtroom statements revealed her “animosity toward (McNeill) is long held and has infected this entire trial," the defense argued unsuccessfully.
Before resting, McNeill and her team called teachers, counselors, doctors, family friends and experts in an attempt to demonstrate how his late birth mother’s alcohol abuse during pregnancy put Cruz onto a lifelong path of erratic, bizarre and often violent behavior that culminated in the shootings. They also tried to show that his adoptive mother, Lynda Cruz, became overwhelmed after her husband died when Cruz was 5.
The defense is trying to overcome the prosecution’s case, which focused on Cruz’s massacre as he stalked a three-story classroom building for seven minutes with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle. Lead prosecutor Mike Satz played security videos of the shooting and showed the rifle Cruz used. Teachers and students testified about watching others die.
Satz showed graphic autopsy and crime scene photos and took jurors to the fenced-off building, which remains blood-stained and bullet-pocked. Parents and spouses gave tearful and angry statements about their loss.
The trial is now scheduled to resume Sept. 27 and conclude the week of Oct. 10. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/judge-in-florida-school-shooter-case-refuses-to-step-down | 2022-09-19T20:08:41Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/judge-in-florida-school-shooter-case-refuses-to-step-down | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California woman has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping so she could go back to a former boyfriend, which led to a three-week, multi-state search.
Forty-year-old Sherri Papini pleaded guilty last spring under a plea bargain.
U.S. District Judge William Shubb said he opted for a longer sentence than prosecutors recommended in order to deter others.
Papini was reported missing on Nov. 2, 2016, and was found 22 days later.
At the time, Papini told law enforcement officials that two Hispanic women had abducted her at gunpoint.
Passersby found her with injuries, including a blurred “brand” on her right shoulder.
Through their investigation, however, the Justice Department found that she wasn't abducted, according to a news release.
In August 2020, when investigators presented their evidence to her, she kept to her original kidnapping story, the DOJ said.
All of her injuries were self-inflicted.
The married mother of two was actually staying with a former boyfriend in Southern California.
He dropped her off about three weeks after she disappeared.
Papini also received $30,000 in victim assistance from the California Victim’s Compensation Board to pay for her to visit her therapist and for the ambulance ride to the hospital after she was initially found, which she must now pay back as part of her restitution. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/california-woman-gets-18-months-for-kidnapping-hoax | 2022-09-19T20:08:53Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/california-woman-gets-18-months-for-kidnapping-hoax | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released a report Monday about an infant who contracted monkeypox in Florida.
The child, who was less than two months in age, was admitted to a hospital with a rash and cellulitis in August.
The CDC said the rash spread to the child's back, soles of feet, face, and eyelid.
A swab of the lsions tested positive for the monkeypox virus.
The hospital reportedly consulted with the CDC for treatment options, which the child tolerated well. The infant is considered fully recovered, according to the CDC.
The agency investigated how the infant could have contracted the virus.
The CDC learned one of the child's former caregivers tested positive for the virus after leaving the state.
"Possible routes of transmission included shared bed linens and skin-to-skin contact through holding and daily care activities," the CDC stated.
The U.S. has reported more than 23,000 cases of monkeypox. Only 27 cases have been reported in patients under 15 years old. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/cdc-infant-fully-recovers-from-monkeypox | 2022-09-19T20:09:00Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/cdc-infant-fully-recovers-from-monkeypox | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The city of Las Vegas has a professional sports championship for the first time, thanks to the WNBA‘s Las Vegas Aces, who beat the Connecticut Sun 78-71 in Game 4 of the Finals on Sept. 18. Superstar forward and league MVP A’ja Wilson has one rule for all of the fans who plan on attending the team’s parade in the city on Sept. 20.
“Vegas, you have to take four shots. Children, take shots of ginger ale, but you have to take four shots before you get to the parade,” Wilson said. “And drink responsibly, but in order to get to the parade, you have to be four shots in. It’s unacceptable if you’re not … Tuesday, 5:30 pacific time. Be there or be square. If you ain’t four shots in, don’t come, stay at the house. Children, drink some ginger ale, some pop. Drink responsibly, don’t be crazy now, but Usher, I better see you, Usher. I’m not playing with you.”
"If you ain't four shots in don't come."
A'ja Wilson is ready for the Aces celebration parade
🤣 @HighlightHER pic.twitter.com/FQET5HAKYk— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) September 19, 2022
In the championship clincher, Wilson contributed 14 rebounds and 11 points. The Defensive Player of the Year also snatched a key steal for the team in the final minute of the game.
The title adds to her growing resume, which includes two MVPs, Defensive Player of the Year, four All-Star games, an Olympic gold medal and a Commissioner’s Cup title. The credentials have already placed the 26-year-old in the discussion of one of the best players ever.
When she won MVP this season, Wilson said her inspiration to keep dominating is to be considered one of the greatest players ever. After winning the championship, she said the Aces were far from being done. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/19/aja-wilson-tells-las-vegas-to-do-this-before-teams-championship-parade/ | 2022-09-19T20:12:17Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/19/aja-wilson-tells-las-vegas-to-do-this-before-teams-championship-parade/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A video has gone viral of a Black woman being harassed at a bar in Georgia called Cantrell’s Hiram Station.
The woman recorded the altercation between her and three White people, and it started with someone telling her that she needed to leave the establishment.
A Black woman records her experience at Hiram Bar and Grill in Georgia: “What you doing in a white place like this?”
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 19, 2022
“I’m going to sit here, I’m going to box my food, I’m going to finish my food, and then I’ll leave,” the woman said.
Later in the video, the woman claims that a worker threw a box at her after asking her to “turn it down.”
The third person in the video later asks the woman “What are you doing in a white place like this,” and the woman responded saying, “I’m in a white place like this because I came up here to play pool.” The two continue to exchange words for the time being, and one of the men in the background laughed and said “Don’t put this on TikTok.”
Towards the end of the video, the third person says “I’m racist, I don’t care.”
“I know you’re racist, you look like a racist,” the woman said. “That’s why you’re poor, most racist people are poor.”
Cantrell’s Hiram Station Facebook page released a statement about the video on Sept. 18 saying “It is unfortunate that this even has to be said … Hiram Station is not a prejudiced establishment … it’s a shame we have to defend ourselves when we have 12 days left.
“The customer who spoke out of turn in a racial manner certainly does not represent Hiram Station views in any capacity. Again he was not our employee and certainly not a representative of Hiram Station!” | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/19/black-woman-harassed-by-racists-at-a-georgia-bar-video/ | 2022-09-19T20:12:23Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/19/black-woman-harassed-by-racists-at-a-georgia-bar-video/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A new weekly show co-hosted by three real-life Chicago friends aims to share “conversation for the soul.”
“Real Talk with Just 4 Girlfriends” launched last week on CAN TV, Chicago’s cable access station, airs Mondays at 7 p.m. CT on CAN TV19 and streams online at cantv.org.
“On the show, people will see three authentic friends sharing nuggets of life facts that are aimed at helping our audience embrace self-care and self preservation,” says co-host Angelique David.
On each show, the hosts dive into an issue and bring on guests to help make sense of it all, with self-care at the heart. The shows cover a wide range of topics. One episode dives into body positivity and loving your full self no matter what. Another is all about wine — how to taste it, how to decipher a wine menu — with insights from a Chicago-based wine store owner. Another episode is all about the therapeutic power of pets.
“We’re a silly and crazy bunch,” says David. “It’s going to feel like you’ve come into a living room with three silly girlfriends who are super down-to-earth.”
The co-hosts also include Michelle Skinner and Robyn McFarland. The three are not only longtime best friends, but also help lead Just 4 Girlfriends, a group that hosts events and connects women to help them embrace those same themes of self-care and self-preservation.
The group was founded by David. At a certain point in her career, she felt like she was losing herself. From the outside, she was a successful lawyer, wife and mother, but she developed persistent health issues that turned out to be caused by stress and anxiety. As she shared her story with more women, she found her issues weren’t so unique.
“I said, ‘Ladies, we have to embrace self-care,’ ” said David. “One of the things I love doing is planning really unique and engaging and over-the-top events. And so I pulled a group of friends together and said how about we do something once a month.”
As the events became more popular, David founded Just 4 Girlfriends, which now has members across the country and hosts live events in the Chicago and DC areas as well as virtual events.
“It has become a mighty sisterhood,” said David. “We wanted it to be something that could make your life easier.”
The natural chemistry of the three hosts is clear to viewers of the show.
David says, “It’ll be a fun Monday night. They’re my besties. You should see the funny things in our group chat!”
“Real Talk” is part of CAN TV’s new signature programming block — five new programs airing weeknights at 7 p.m. CT. The shows are a mix of interview and conversation formats featuring local news, culture, politics and community leaders, all hosted by Chicagoans featuring stories about Chicago.
For more information, visit www.cantv.org. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/19/can-tvs-new-show-real-talk-embraces-self-care/ | 2022-09-19T20:12:29Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/19/can-tvs-new-show-real-talk-embraces-self-care/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The pandemic is over. That information hasn’t been officially declared by a national health professional or the CDC, but President Joe Biden said it confidently during a stroll on “60 Minutes.” The president was interviewed in Detroit and he didn’t hold back on his thoughts about the disease that has shifted the way the world has operated for nearly three years.
“The pandemic is over,” he said. “We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it, but the pandemic is over.”
Biden was in Michigan for the Detroit Auto Show, the first in-person show in three years since the 2020 shutdown.
“If you notice, no one’s wearing masks,” he said. “Everyone seems to be in pretty good shape. I think it’s changing, and I think this is a perfect example of it.”
Joe Biden in Detroit, with 60 Minutes: "The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over." pic.twitter.com/zkgSwJ79Wf
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 19, 2022
In July, Biden tested positive for COVID-19 twice. The first case was confirmed on July 21, when he experienced mild symptoms, including a runny nose, cough and a fever. On the second go-round, America’s 46th president said he experienced no symptoms.
According to The New York Times‘ COVID-19 tracker, the seven-day average of new reported positive cases is 129, which is 254 less than last year’s seven-day average of 383 reported positive cases. The John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center listed more than two million COVID cases in America in the past 28 days, as reported by Politico.
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding used Twitter to voice his displeasure with the president.Feigl-Ding
“I’m still shaking my head at what Biden says. If he only knew how much I stuck my head out and sacrificed for him in 2020,” Feigl-Ding tweeted.
Is the pandemic over?
⚠️Hell no—Not even close.
🔹 Excess mortality still exceeds THIRD global cause of death!
🔹#LongCOVID itself is a pandemic crisis
🔹Evolution of new virus variants not done yet
🔹Transmission still very highHT @fibke @PeoplesCDC https://t.co/c3PHNAZEeI pic.twitter.com/EtaGJzZnR3
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) September 19, 2022
The doctor also pointed out Politico‘s report that revealed “several” of Biden’s health officials were caught by surprise by the president’s statement. Fiegl-Ding also posted a screenshot of a report from Sept. 16 that nearly 3,000 people are still dying every week from COVID.
“No, COVID is still not the flu yet, damnit,” Feigl-Ding tweeted.
Feigl-Ding also explained that COVID still kills more people than the flu.
“The data doesn’t lie,” Fiegl-Ding tweeted. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/19/joe-biden-says-the-pandemic-is-over-what-the-experts-and-numbers-say/ | 2022-09-19T20:12:35Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/19/joe-biden-says-the-pandemic-is-over-what-the-experts-and-numbers-say/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New York City Mayor Eric Adams talked about how an iconic actor inspired him to overcome his speech impediment, and says he will take the advice given to him by actor Samuel L. Jackson at a star-studded event at a Broadway theater renaming ceremony
New York City Mayor Eric Adams talked about how an iconic actor inspired him to overcome his speech impediment, and says he will take the advice given to him by actor Samuel L. Jackson at a star-studded event at a Broadway theater renaming ceremony | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/19/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-says-iconic-actor-inspired-him/ | 2022-09-19T20:12:41Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/19/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-says-iconic-actor-inspired-him/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bishop Lamor Whitehead is back in the news, and once again it’s not because of the sermons that he’s preaching.
In July 2022, the Brooklyn bishop was robbed of more than $1 million in jewelry during a church service that was live-streaming and was later accused of stealing $90,000 from a congregant in a lawsuit that was filed last year.
Bishop Whitehead allegedly has a history of grifting and has served time in prison for identity theft and grand larceny.
On Sept. 18, things got physical at Whitehead’s church, as he ended up putting his hands on a woman during his live-streamed sermon.
While the bishop was preaching, there was someone in the background shouting. He stops his sermon to tell the woman “come on up here, I’m going to make you famous.”
The lady continues to shout in the background, and Whitehead then moves from the camera telling someone to “remove her out of here.” That’s when the woman started approaching Whitehead, and he repeatedly says “take the pictures.”
When the woman appeared on the screen, Whitehead grabbed her by the neck and shoved her out of the frame. The bishop continued with his sermon after the incident, and hours later went on Instagram to tell his side of the story and said he had been arrested and charged with assault, but was later released.
“They put me in cuffs and I told them I wasn’t getting in and they grabbed me and picked me up [and put me] in the car,” Whitehead said in the video. “All the little babies in my church saw me get arrested, the ones that look up to me.”
According to police, the woman who confronted Whitehead during the sermon was charged with trespassing and disrupting a religious service. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/19/nyc-bishop-makes-an-unholy-move-on-trespasser-during-live-sermon-video/ | 2022-09-19T20:12:47Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/19/nyc-bishop-makes-an-unholy-move-on-trespasser-during-live-sermon-video/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Eastern Michigan basketball star Emoni Bates was arrested on Sept. 18 and charged with carrying a concealed weapon and altering ID marks on a firearm.
According to the police, Bates was pulled over after failing to stop at an intersection and was taken into custody after a firearm was discovered during the traffic stop.
A person charged with carrying a concealed weapon in Michigan can face imprisonment for not more than five years and a fine of up to $2,500. The charge of altering an ID on a weapon carries a penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $1,000.
The 18-year-old was known as one of the elite prospects in the country throughout his high school career and was once ranked No. 1.
He committed to Michigan State in 2020 and then reopened his recruitment in 2021, where he committed to Memphis averaging just 9.7 points. Bates decided to transfer after one season and in August 2022 announced he was going to play at Eastern Michigan.
Things didn’t go well for Bates from there, as he missed almost half the season with a back injury, and when he was available to play, he struggled on the court.
According to a 2023 mock draft from ESPN, Bates is considered a second-round pick. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/19/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-former-no-1-recruit-in-the-country/ | 2022-09-19T20:12:53Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/19/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-former-no-1-recruit-in-the-country/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Wendy Williams was in a “catatonic” state and close to death when she was rescued by friends and rushed to the hospital.
Word is just getting out now that the former talk show queen was “at death’s door” in 2020 when family and staff, mainly ex-husband Kevin Hunter Sr. and son, Kevin Jr. and DJ Boof, got her to get two blood transfusions at the local medical center. She remained in the hospital for a week because her iron levels were dangerously low.
“She’s going to die. She literally couldn’t stand up,” Page Six reports a source confiding to the newspaper.
The incident gives clues as to why Williams was unable to return to her show for the 13th and final season in August 2021, and why the show was unceremoniously discontinued in the summer of 2022.
“She was just lying on top of the covers, and she needed 911 help, and [Weny’s] like, ‘We’re not getting 911,'” the source said of the 2020 episode in her apartment. “Kevin and Kevin Jr. were both saying, ‘Please, come on, Mom. Let [Ron and his team] come up.’”
DJ Boof, a close friend, eventually drove Williams to the hospital. The sources told the newspaper that Williams may not have survived another day on her own. She was reportedly found in a soiled bathrobe, laying down and staring at the ceiling but not responding to anyone.
“Boof was the savior of her f—— life,” the source said. “She was really, in my opinion, at death’s door.”
The eyewitness also said: “If we were not there that day, she would not be here. She would not have made it. If it weren’t for Kevin and Ron Clinton and his team, she wouldn’t have made it.”
Shawn Zanotti, Wendy’s publicist, told Page Six that it is not constructive to revisit two years ago and that the focus should remain on Williams’ current stint in rehab.
“The focus is not on anything from her past. The only focus we have at this time is for Wendy to continue to strive at getting better and moving forward,” Zanotti said. “Right now she is healing and working on the second part of her documentary and her podcast, she has several things that are demanding her attention right now and past gossip is not one of them.” | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/19/wendy-williams-was-at-deaths-door-before-intervention/ | 2022-09-19T20:12:59Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/19/wendy-williams-was-at-deaths-door-before-intervention/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RAWLINS – The Rawlins High School Lady Outlaws lost at home on Saturday, Sept. 17, to the Wheatland High School Lady Bulldogs in a three-set sweep (25-17, 25-11 and 25-15).
Rawlins head coach Aubrey Griffiths said her squad had a lot of “silly” mistakes.
“We were not finding the court with our hitters. Honestly, we could have done better, but our defense was pretty good. Their defense was excellent, though. It’s hard to find an open spot on their side of the court,” she said.
The Lady Outlaws started off the first set strong, exchanging the lead with the Lady Bulldogs.
Wheatland began to pull away and began controlling nearly the entire matchup.
It wasn’t until late in the third and final set when the Lady Outlaws began to hit their stride.
Rawlins fell behind early and even had a 15-point deficit at one point. That’s when Griffiths used a timeout to talk to her squad.
The Lady Outlaws then proceeded to go on a 6-0 run and finished the set on a 7-2 run overall.
“I told them to find their fire, start believing in themselves and hold themselves accountable and start doing their job. They’re the ones on the court and they’re the ones that need to get the job done,” Griffiths said.
“They found their groove, but it turns out, it was a little too late.”
On Friday, Sept. 23, through Saturday, Sept. 24, the Lady Outlaws will compete in the tournament in Casper.
“We need to work on starting the game and ending the game with the same speed, instead of doing the roller coaster. We need to really just find our fire and work through the whole game,” Griffiths said.
SCORES FROM AROUND THE STATE
Thursday, Sept. 15
Class 4A
Kelly Walsh 3, Green River 0 (25-11, 25-14 and 25-10)
Natrona County 3, Campbell County 2 (20-25, 25-13, 25-19, 25-27 and 15-7)
Laramie 3, Cheyenne East 0 (25-19, 25-15 and 25-21)
Cheyenne Central 3, Cheyenne South 0 (25-10, 25-8 and 25-22)
Class 3A
Newcastle 3, Glenrock 0 (25-13, 26-24 and 26-24)
Douglas 3, Torrington 0 (25-16, 25-22 and 25-15)
Class 2A
Shoshoni 3, Wind River 1 (25-15, 22-25, 25-10 and 25-19)
Class 1A
Saratoga 3, Encampment 1 (21-25, 25-17, 25-15 and 25-20)
Friday, Sept. 16
Class 4A
Riverton 3, Jackson 0 (25-20, 25-18 and 25-18
Thunder Basin 3, Sheridan 0 (25-9, 25-9 and 25-15)
Cody 3, Star Valley 1 (21-25, 25-10, 25-19 and 25-19
Laramie 3, Cheyenne Central 0 (25-22, 25-13 and 25-15)
Class 3A
Lyman 3, Lander 0 (25-18, 25-21 and 25-19)
Douglas 3, Rawlins 0 (25-16, 25-21 and 25-14)
Worland 3, Lovell 1 (21-25, 25-17, 25-13 and 25-23)
Buffalo 3, Moorcroft (25-17, 23-25, 25-17 and 25-21)
Wheatland 3, Torrington 1 (25-18, 23-25, 25-8 and 25-12)
Mountain View 3, Pinedale 0 (25-14, 25-15 and 25-22)
Powell 3, Thermopolis 0 (25-5, 25-12 and 25-18)
Class 2A
Rocky Mountain 3, Greybull 2 (25-27, 25-15, 20-25, 25-17 and 15-11)
Burns 3, Lusk 0 (25-18, 25-21 and 25-19)
Kemmerer 3, Wyoming Indian 0 (25-9, 25-15 and 25-9)
Big Horn 3, Wright 0 (25-15, 25-14 and 25-22)
Class 1A
Kaycee 3, Arvada-Clearmont 0 (25-11, 25-10 and 25-9)
Cokeville 3, Farson-Eden 0 (25-7, 25-7 and 25-4)
Meeteetse 3, Dubois 0 (25-22, 25-15 and 25-18)
Little Snake River 3, Encampment 0 (25-11, 25-13 and 25-12)
Riverside 3, Burlington 0 (25-9, 25-12 and 25-23)
Saturday, Sept. 17
Class 4A
Cody 3, Jackson 0 (25-9, 25-13 and 25-5)
Thunder Basin 3, Natrona County 0 (25-23, 25-18 and 25-20)
Campbell County 3, Sheridan 1 (20-25, 25-17, 25-14 and 25-14)
Star Valley 3, Riverton 1 (25-19, 17-25, 25-15 and 25-22)
Kelly Walsh 3, Evanston 0 (25-9, 25-9 and 25-9)
Class 3A
Newcastle 3, Buffalo 1 (17-25, 25-20, 25-17 and 25-21)
Moorcroft 3, Glenrock 0 (25-10, 25-11 and 25-16)
Mountain View 3, Lander 0 (25-19, 25-13 and 25-17)
Wheatland 3, Rawlins 0 (25-17, 25-11 and 25-15)
Powell 3, Worland 1 (25-13, 26-24, 22-25 and 25-19)
Class 2A
Big Piney 3, Wyoming Indian 1 (25-10, 30-28, 25-20 and 25-10)
Sundance 3, Wright 1 (25-23, 23-25, 25-15 and 25-22)
Burns 3, Pine Bluffs 1 (15-25, 25-19, 25-12 and 25-16)
Rocky Mountain 3, Shoshoni 2 (25-13, 21-25, 25-22, 22-25 and 15-11)
Greybull 3, Wind River 0 (25-19, 25-12 and 25-16)
Class 1A
Southeast 3, Rock River 0 (25-16, 25-22 and 25-9)
Hulett 3, Arvada-Clearmont (25-10, 25-17 and 25-9)
Guernsey-Sunrise 3, Midwest 2 (25-19, 19-25, 17-25, 25-11 and 15-11)
Kaycee 3, Upton 2 (25-13, 25-12, 22-25, 25-27 and 15-9)
Riverside 3, Dubois 0 (25-11, 25-7 and 25-7)
Southeast 3, H.E.M. 0 (25-2, 25-12 and 25-12) | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/lady-outlaws-swept-by-lady-bulldogs-in-three-sets/article_fef338a4-3845-11ed-831c-03173422d20a.html | 2022-09-19T20:18:24Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/lady-outlaws-swept-by-lady-bulldogs-in-three-sets/article_fef338a4-3845-11ed-831c-03173422d20a.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Photo Courtesy of Sweetwater County Board of Trustees
CHEYENNE -- Governor Mark Gordon has announced Lauren Schoenfeld has been selected to serve as the Wyoming Innovation Partnership (WIP) Executive Director.
Governor Gordon launched WIP to develop a resilient workforce and further focus Wyoming’s economic development efforts. The innovative collaboration brings the state’s higher education institutions and Community College Commission together with industry leaders and Executive branch agencies, including the Department of Workforce Services, the Wyoming Business Council and the Governor’s Office.
“I am pleased to have Lauren join our staff as the executive director for the WIP initiative,” Governor Gordon said. “Her experience in organizational management and knowledge of Wyoming are assets that will help her skillfully coordinate a wide array of stakeholders and move the state ahead.”
Schoenfeld’s position will work closely with WIP institutions and partners to develop new or further develop existing relationships with businesses, policy leaders and lawmakers. The Wyoming Legislature created and funded the position for two years. Schoenfeld is a member of the Governor’s policy staff.
Schoenfeld grew up in Wyoming, attended Central Wyoming College and earned her Bachelor’s in communication from the University of Wyoming. Her experience includes serving as the executive director for the YMCA of Sweetwater County and, most recently, as the Organizational Change Management Lead for J.R. Simplot. She has served on the Sweetwater County Board of Commissioners since 2019.
“I am very excited to join Governor Gordon’s team and look forward to collaborating across the state to continue to develop and support Wyoming’s workforce and economy,” Schoenfeld stated. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/governor-names-schoenfeld-as-wyoming-innovation-partnership-executive-director/article_0a9055ea-3849-11ed-a31d-17d3db943b5a.html | 2022-09-19T20:18:37Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/governor-names-schoenfeld-as-wyoming-innovation-partnership-executive-director/article_0a9055ea-3849-11ed-a31d-17d3db943b5a.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Technology
How engineer bagged Airtel, Safaricom bulk SMS business
Monday September 19 2022When Robert Lang'at started his technology business with Sh50,000, in a shared office space, he knew it will grow one day, but not to the levels that it has now.
However, as the number of mobile phone users increases and big companies seek small entrepreneurs to manage their electronic messaging services, helping them to close the communication gap with customers, so has his bulk SMS company.
“With the little resources I had at the time, personal savings and contributions from friends, I started Mobitech Technologies from home. Then I moved to a shared office after getting a few clients. Later, I secured the required business permits and moved to our own office,” says Mr Langat.
Hurdles
Gaining the trust of his customers was his first hurdle.
“But once we got our first clients, we got referrals and it became easier to expand the business after one year,” he says at the company’s offices in Nairobi’s Westlands.
“We established Mobitech Technologies in 2012. It is a licensed content service provider with the Communications Authority of Kenya. We provide a range of value-added services to telcos including Safaricom and Airtel,” he says.
Market target
Mr Lang’at, a telecommunications engineer by profession, says his business mainly majors in bulk SMS services and premium short codes.
“I was in the IT and telecommunications field creating mobile applications. Then I saw the gap in the market to offer bulk SMS solutions and other IT-related services to businesses and institutions,” he says.
His company partners with telco companies that provide mobile network services like Safaricom, Airtel, and Telkom Kenya. So, how did he bag the big clients like Safaricom and Airtel?
“We started by creating a great product and building good customer relations. We have a web-based portal that we create accounts for their customers that they have full control over.
They simply log in, upload their customer contacts and send them SMS,” he says, adding that their bulk SMS "run on a robust, efficient and secure system that connects to various telcos.”
Learning institutions, saccos, casinos and supermarkets make up a bulk of their big clients.
“We also have churches, internet service providers, government institutions, real estate companies, welfare groups, hospitals, and sports betting firms among many others,” says Mr Lang’at.
From a solo tech-preneur, Mr Lang’at now has five employees and serves more than 1,000 clients.
“Our products are easy to use, and since our services are consumed digitally, customers do use necessarily have to come to our offices,” says Mr Lang’at.
Competition
The bulk SMS industry has attracted many entrepreneurs, creating jobs in a thriving ICT industry.
Over the years, many entrants in the bulk SMS service providers market have encountered stiff competition from the likes of Mr Lang’at.
“There is stiff competition from other service providers. The regulatory fee that should be paid to the Communications Authority of Kenya is also a challenge. The pandemic also led to a drop in business as schools, for instance, cut back on spending,” he says.
Kenya’s tech space has been growing, gaining a huge global appeal, meaning that opportunities abound.
He advises those who would like to venture into such a business to believe in themselves, not to give up and give their customers a good service.
Expansion plans
“We charge a flat rate of 35 cents per SMS across all networks in Kenya. We don’t charge any monthly maintenance fees or set up fees. There is no expiry period on the SMS purchased. For a sender name, we charge a one-time fee of Sh6,800 per telco,” adds Mr Lang’at.
The tech-preneur is looking to expand to Uganda and Tanzania and possibly the whole of Africa.
“We also intend to expand our network outside Nairobi to other parts of the country where people don’t know us and our products and services yet,” he says. | https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/corporate/technology/how-engineer-bagged-airtel-safaricom-bulk-sms-business-3953058 | 2022-09-19T20:20:14Z | afar.com | control | https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/corporate/technology/how-engineer-bagged-airtel-safaricom-bulk-sms-business-3953058 | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The California “super mom” who faked her own kidnapping and lied for years about being abducted and tortured by a pair of Hispanic women was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison.
Sherri Papini, 40, was blasted as a “manipulator” by US District Judge William Shubb before he handed the stiff penalty.
The fraudster — who was dubbed a “super mom” when she vanished in 2016 — agreed to a plea deal in April that also requires her to pay more than $300,000 in restitution.
Prosecutors had requested she be locked up for eight months, according to a sentencing memo filed in her case. Her defense attorney asked she serve one month in prison and seven months of home detention.
“People don’t like to be conned,” Shubb said, according to the Sacramento Bee. “And I don’t believe those people who were deceived would believe that one month or eight months is sufficient.”
Shubb said he settled on the stiffer sentence to deter other potential hoax plotters — and because of the “sheer number of people who were impacted,” the Associated Press reported.
Before she was sentenced, Papini — her voice breaking at times — read a prepared statement fessing up for her crimes, according to the Bee.
“I am guilty of lying. I am guilty of dishonor. I stand before you willing to accept. To repent and to concede. I trust in this court. I trust the officers handling my release and I trust in you, your honor, to see me, to hear me,” she said.
Papini, a mom of two, disappeared for more than 20 days in the fall of 2016, reappearing on Thanksgiving Day along Interstate 5 in rural Yolo County, Calif., with a chain around her waist and a “brand” on her shoulder.
She told police she was abducted by a pair of gun-toting Hispanic women while she was jogging near her home on Nov. 2, 2016. She alleged the fictional duo tortured her for more than three weeks — and eventually convinced her family and friends that the ordeal was true.
The pathological liar spread falsehoods about the ordeal for years, until prosecutors determined she was with her ex-boyfriend, James Reyes, at his apartment in Costa Mesa.
In their sentencing submission, prosecutors said Papini’s lies led innocent people to come under criminal investigation.
“Papini caused innocent individuals to become targets of a criminal investigation. She left the public in fear of her alleged Hispanic capturers who purportedly remained at large,” they wrote. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/19/sherri-papini-slapped-with-18-month-prison-sentence-for-kidnap-hoax/ | 2022-09-19T20:23:47Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/19/sherri-papini-slapped-with-18-month-prison-sentence-for-kidnap-hoax/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Amid the formal pageantry, speeches, prayers and songsr at Queen Elizabeth’s funeral Monday, members of the Royal Family found quiet ways to celebrate the Queen through fashion.
Many of the women closest to the queen wore jewelry and pieces of clothing given by the late monarch or meant to symbolize her impact.
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Here’s a full breakdown of all the fashion homages at the service:
Meghan Markle
The Duchess of Sussex showed up to the funeral Monday wearing the pearl-and-diamond drop earrings gifted to her by the Queen. The earrings were given in honor of the pair’s first solo outing together in 2018.
“The royal tradition of wearing pearls for mourning dates back to Queen Victoria, who was so overwhelmed with grief when Prince Albert died that she wore nothing but black for the rest of her life,” Maxwell Stone of UK jeweler Steven Stone previously told Page Six Style.
In a mournful nod to a happier time, Markle’s cape dress was the black version of a navy dress she wore to celebrate the Queen’s 92nd birthday at the Royal Albert Hall in 2018.
Princess Kate
Kate Middleton made sure her outfit was full of symbolism Monday, donning Queen Elizabeth’s pearls and a black Alexander McQueen coat dress that was a black version of the same coat she wore for the Platinum Jubilee earlier this year.
The Princess of Wales had worn the same pearl earrings — which were a gift from the ruler of Bahrain to the Queen for her wedding in 1947 — to Prince Philip’s funeral.
Notably, she also wore the Queen’s four-row pearl choker with a diamond clasp.
The necklace was made from pearls which “were reportedly a gift from the Japanese government, possibly acquired during the 1970s, when she made a state visit to that nation,” according to The Court Jeweller.
Kate had worn than choker before — to a dinner celebrating the Queen and Prince Philip’s 70th year anniversary.
Princess Charlotte
Seven-year-old Princess Charlotte sported a diamond brooch in the shape of a horseshoe that her late great-grandmother, the Queen, gave her, according to reports.
The brooch seemed to be the first time the princess, who is third-in-line to the throne after her father Prince William and older brother Prince George, wore symbolic jewerly.
Queen Elizabeth was a known animal lover and was especially fond of horses.
Queen Consort Camilla
Queen Consort Camilla paid homage to Queen Elizabeth by donning Queen Victoria’s Hesse Diamond Jubilee Brooch, a heart-shaped piece featuring the number 60 — the number of years in a Diamond Jubilee reign — in Cyrillic numerals.
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It seemed to be a nod that Queen Elizabeth, whose reign last 70 years, served even longer than Victoria.
Camila also carried a clutch by Launer, Queen Elizabeth’s longtime favorite label.
Luckily for Camilla, she is likely to inherit much of Elizabeth’s massive jewelry collection. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/19/the-fashion-homages-worn-by-royals-at-queen-elizabeths-funeral/ | 2022-09-19T20:23:59Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/19/the-fashion-homages-worn-by-royals-at-queen-elizabeths-funeral/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Apple’s new iPhone 14 base model looks similar to its predecessor but is redesigned on the inside, making it much easier to repair cracks in the back glass, repair firm iFixit said in blog post Monday.
Glass backs returned to iPhones in 2017, but the way they were attached made them difficult to replace. Apple charged up to $599 to repair the back glass on some models, though much less for customers with AppleCare+, Apple’s device insurance program.
IFixit, which assesses the reparability of consumer electronics, said Monday Apple has made major changes to the iPhone 14 base model. Previous iPhones had back glass glued to the phone’s frame and buried under other components, meaning the device had to be almost totally disassembled to fix it.
In the iPhone 14, the back glass is held in place by just two screws and one connector, making it easy to remove.
Apple did not mention the internal redesign when it announced the iPhone 14 earlier this month. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Given the cost of previous repairs “everyone was just living with phones with tape on the back,” iFixit Chief Executive Kyle Wiens told Reuters. “This gives people a shot at getting them fixed. It also creates opportunities for local repair shops.”
The costlier iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max still have the older style of glued-in glass back. Apple’s phones have long been a target of repair industry critics who argued the devices were so hard to fix that consumers were more likely to discard them and buy a new device.
Apple has slowly started to embrace the repair industry in recent years as part of its environmental sustainability efforts. In 2019, Apple started selling tools, parts and manuals to independent repair shops. Last year, Apple began offering those items to the general public. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/19/apples-iphone-14-easier-to-repair-if-back-glass-is-cracked/ | 2022-09-19T20:27:10Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/19/apples-iphone-14-easier-to-repair-if-back-glass-is-cracked/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
With resurgence in vinyl, record store opens in Old Town Fort Collins
A longtime Fort Collins disc jockey has fulfilled a long-held dream by opening Driver 8 Records in Old Town.
Owner Charles Hale, currently a volunteer disc jockey, has been a DJ at KRFC and KCSU while attending Colorado State University.
He said his love for records and collecting began in 2001 at Rocks Off Records, a long gone Fort Collins record store.
“Much like every homebrewer wants to open a brewery to have their beers tasted, I’ve always wanted to have a record store where great music can be shared and heard,” he said.
Driver 8 Records, 246 Pine St., stocks a selection new and classic vinyl across musical genres including Americana, punk, Indie rock, jazz and hip-hop. Hale said he noticed during the COVID quarantine in 2020 record stores across the country were doing well while other businesses struggled.
“COVID forced people to look at their local communities and decide what businesses were important to them," he said. "Record stores were one of the things that people made an extra effort to support.”
It took a couple years for the store to come to fruition, but Hale said his inventory is "focused on offering what has been missing for those most passionate about their music."
Hale began as a volunteer DJ for KRFC, later served on the station's board of directors and served as program director for a year.
Currently he is a volunteer DJ, hosting the Ajax Diner Book Club on Sunday nights. He said the show reflects the blend of storytelling, musical knowledge, and organic sounds one should expect when visiting the record store.
According to a recent report by market research company Technavio, the vinyl market witnessed nearly 7% growth in 2021 and is expected to increase by $563.7 million between 2020 and 2025. The report said vinyl is among one of the fastest-selling and growing mediums of music preferred by collectors, audophiles and DJs.
For more information, visit Driver 8 Records on Facebook, on Instagram @Driver8Recs, online at www.driver8records.com or call 970-691-9002.
Pat Ferrier is a senior reporter covering business, health care and growth issues in Northern Colorado. Contact her at patferrier@coloradoan.com. | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/money/business/2022/09/19/with-resurgence-in-vinyl-record-store-opens-in-old-town-fort-collins/69497000007/ | 2022-09-19T20:27:49Z | coloradoan.com | control | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/money/business/2022/09/19/with-resurgence-in-vinyl-record-store-opens-in-old-town-fort-collins/69497000007/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Colorado commits $350 million to add Interstate 25 express lanes from Berthoud to Longmont
You know that irritating stretch of northbound Interstate 25 near Longmont that's laden with skid marks from years of drivers adjusting to three lanes reducing to two?
Good news: There is now funding to remove the dangerous bottleneck, which is the last remaining two-lane stretch of I-25 in Northern Colorado not already funded for expansion.
Called Segment 5, the 7-mile stretch from Colorado Highway 56 near Berthoud to Colorado Highway 66 near Longmont, recently received a $350 million commitment to add express lanes, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.
Funding comes from a combination of the CDOT's 10-year plan and a federal Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loan to be repaid from express lane toll revenues.
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The funding will allow CDOT to build express lanes, replace interchanges, widen shoulders and add bicycle and pedestrian facilities.
CDOT lists the project as a priority in the next several years but does not detail a specific starting point.
Until Wednesday’s decision, full funding of the final segment of North I-25 expansion was undefined, according to a news release from Fix North I-25 Business Alliance, a taskforce comprised of the Northern Colorado Legislative Alliance and the North I-25 Coalition and government leaders along the North I-25 corridor.
The release said the commitment assures the North I-25 Express Lanes project will extend from Fort Collins to Longmont.
“Eight years ago, the Fix North I-25 Alliance and the North I-25 Coalition called for expansion of North I-25 from two lanes to three by 2025,'' Sandra Hagen Solin of Fix North I-25 Business Alliance said in the release. "This interstate is one of the most economically significant roadways in Colorado and nationally and Wednesday’s announcement finally answered our call and vision for Northern Colorado. ''
The group said a concern still exists because CDOT's 10-year plan does not address building the I-25 Managed Express Lane south of Longmont to E-470 (Segment 4) to provide a continuous managed lane from Fort Collins to Denver.
The Colorado Transportation Commission committed nearly $1 billion to build the North I-25 Express Lanes project from Berthoud to Fort Collins, which includes Segments 6 through 8. That project started in 2018 and is scheduled to be completed in late 2023. | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2022/09/19/interstate-25-funding-to-add-express-lanes-from-berthoud-to-longmont-colorado/69498087007/ | 2022-09-19T20:27:55Z | coloradoan.com | control | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2022/09/19/interstate-25-funding-to-add-express-lanes-from-berthoud-to-longmont-colorado/69498087007/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Colorado State football receiver, Nevada transfer Melquan Stovall leaving program
Another Colorado State football player has left the program.
Coach Jay Norvell told reporters Monday that slot receiver Melquan Stovall had left the team and would finish his college career elsewhere.
Stovall is second on the team in catches through three games with 13 receptions for 106 yards.
The 5-foot-8 senior transferred to CSU from Nevada, where he spent his first three years playing under Norvell. He had 108 catches for 1,064 yards and one score in three years with Nevada.
“Had a long talk with Melquan Stovall (Sunday). Known Melquan a long time. In this day and age of college football these kids have so many choices. They have a short time to play. They want to be in a certain situation to play,” Norvell said. “It wasn’t quite what Melquan was looking for. He has two more years of eligibility. He wants to take this year off and take his chances playing in another program.”
Stovall is the second slot receiver to leave the team within the last week after Dante Wright announced last week that he would leave the program to finish his career elsewhere. Kicker Cayden Camper also recently left the team.
Stovall couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
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The departures mean more playing time and emphasis on CSU's young receivers. True freshman Justus Ross-Simmons saw his first extended action in Saturday's loss at Washington State. He caught three passes for 20 yards, including his first touchdown.
Fellow freshmen Louis Brown and Mekhi Fox will likely see more time now. Both have seen the field sparingly and don't have a catch thus far. Senior Justice McCoy is listed as Stovall's replacement on the depth chart. He also saw time Saturday but didn't record a catch.
CSU (0-3) hosts Sacramento State (2-0) at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, on Ag Day. Sacramento State is ranked No. 6 in the FCS coaches poll.
Follow sports reporter Kevin Lytle on Twitter and Instagram @Kevin_Lytle. | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/sports/csu/football/2022/09/19/csu-football-receiver-nevada-transfer-melquan-stovall-leaving-program/69504441007/ | 2022-09-19T20:28:01Z | coloradoan.com | control | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/sports/csu/football/2022/09/19/csu-football-receiver-nevada-transfer-melquan-stovall-leaving-program/69504441007/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
St. John’s hopes of pairing one star recruit forward named Brandon with another was extinguished on Monday afternoon.
Four-star wing Brandon Williams of Christ the King opted for UCLA over the Johnnies on Monday, passing on the chance to stay home and play for Mike Anderson. It is a significant blow to the Red Storm’s recruiting class.
Anderson and his staff had recently landed new Christ the King forward Brandon Gardner, a four-star like Williams, and were hoping to bring in both of them next year. Instead, the 6-foot-9, multi-talented Williams picked the far more established program that reached the Final Four just two years ago.
For weeks, Williams was considered an UCLA lean, following his official visit out west. The Bruins’ coaching staff impressed him with a detailed outline for his development, from how he would fit into coach Mick Cronin’s system to immediate playing time to a specific nutrition plan, sources said. Williams and his family believed picking UCLA would set him up better for a professional career and those close to him were pushing for him to see the world outside of Queens.
“He likes the plan they had for him,” a source close to Williams said. “They said he has a good chance right away, he could be one of the four guards they’ll be using.”
Prior to the UCLA visit, Williams was viewed as a likely St. John’s commit. His high school is closely aligned with St. John’s and the Johnnies had made him a clear priority for much of the spring and summer. Williams was drawn to the family atmosphere Anderson has created and developed strong relationships with different members of the staff. He told The Post in July that by staying home he would have a “different type of love.” His grandmother, Dawn Grubbs, said he would have had up to 50 family members and friends at home games.
It was a strange recruitment. Williams, still only 16 years old, was at times overwhelmed by the process. He announced a final two of St. John’s and UCLA in mid-August, in part to slow the onslaught of phone calls and outside parties pushing schools he wasn’t interested in.
St. John’s also lost out on one of their top guard targets last week, when four-star prospect Elijah Gertrude committed to Virginia. Another four-star guard, Carl Cherenfant from Florida, will take an official visit to Queens starting Thursday. He is one of the coaching staff’s focuses now, along with three-star Newark, N.J. wing Aaron Clark, who recently took an unofficial visit.
St. John’s recruiting had been on the upswing of late. This year’s current freshmen class included top-100 guard AJ Storr and Gardner is the highest-rated recruit of the Anderson era. Anderson was also able to pick up two of the top-rated transfers this offseason in guard Andre Curbelo (Illinois) and Jones. But the idea of a really strong recruiting class took a major hit with Williams’ commitment to UCLA. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/19/st-johns-loses-top-recruit-brandon-williams-to-ucla/ | 2022-09-19T20:30:28Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/19/st-johns-loses-top-recruit-brandon-williams-to-ucla/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Nearly 300 guns were turned in during a buyback event in Grand Rapids over the weekend.
The city says the SAFE Task Force received a total of 285 weapons, more than the number collected at the first two buyback events in 2020.
In all, residents turned in 87 semi-automatic handguns, 64 revolvers, 54 rifles and 80 shotguns, according to city officials.
We’re told two of the guns were stolen, one of which was reportedly taken from Grand Rapids police 40 years ago.
“Our gun buyback programs are a proactive approach to reducing the number of unwanted firearms in our community,” says Assistant to the City Manager Asante Cain. “It reduces the potential for these to fall in the wrong hands and be used in a future crime or accidents. The SAFE Task Force was proud to partner with the Police Department in hosting this event and working towards our shared goal of ending gun violence.”
The city tells us the buyback event was made possible by the SAFE Task Force’s $40,000 donation.
Participating residents were given $100 gift cards for shotguns, rifles and revolvers, as well as $200 gift cards for assault weapons and semi-automatic handguns, according to the city of Grand Rapids. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/grand-rapids/285-guns-collected-at-3rd-buyback-event-in-grand-rapids | 2022-09-19T20:31:36Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/grand-rapids/285-guns-collected-at-3rd-buyback-event-in-grand-rapids | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Health officials have detected monkeypox (MPV) in Kalamazoo County.
The Kalamazoo County Health & Community Services Department (HCS) says the resident in question is self-isolating and is not considered a public health threat.
HCS is working to identify close contacts and monitor them for possible symptoms.
No other cases of MPV have been detected as of yet.
“At this time, the risk of contracting monkeypox remains low in Kalamazoo County,” says Kalamazoo County Health Officer Jim Rutherford. “HCS recommends, however, that Kalamazoo County Residents remain vigilant when it comes to preventing monkeypox. We will continue to work with all of our state and local community partners to keep residents informed of their risk, and the best methods of prevention.”
Visit Kalamazoo County’s website for more information on MPV, including case numbers, symptoms and vaccines.
We’re told 246 cases of monkeypox have been detected in Michigan as of Sept. 18.
“If you are concerned about your risk for contracting monkeypox, do not hesitate to reach out to your doctor or the health department for information,” Rutherford adds.
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RELATED: CDC warns dogs can catch monkeypox | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/kzoo-bc/kalamazoo/monkeypox-detected-in-kalamazoo-county-resident | 2022-09-19T20:31:42Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/kzoo-bc/kalamazoo/monkeypox-detected-in-kalamazoo-county-resident | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
We are currently investigating our future directions. All members are asked submit and feedback to three surveys: a general member consultations survey concerning areas and directions in which the IAD should continue; a member opinion pool; A research forum with potential collaborator groups around an environmental psychology agenda: for environmental aw...essay the nature. ... This area should continue so we as IPSA need guidance, in areas like urban/ environmental. We look for this kind of work to address all The Federal Aviation Administration rejected Republic Airways' proposal to slash the number of hours its pilots would need to become co-pilots.
Pilots currently need at least 1,500 hours of experience to fly a commercial airliner.
Republic Airways reportedly wanted to FAA to cut the requirement to 750 for pilots who graduated from its Lift Academy. That would be on par with the requirements for pilots who have military experience.
The FAA reportedly concluded that Lift Academy does not provide enough training to permit a reduction in flight experience.
Republic Airways says it operates 1,000 flights per day in 100 U.S. cities. It is a regional carrier for American, Delta, and United.
The Regional Airline Association supported Republic Airways' proposal. However, the largest pilot's union in the world, the Air Line Pilots Association, opposed the change in training hours. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/faa-rejects-proposal-to-cut-required-pilot-training-hours | 2022-09-19T20:31:54Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/faa-rejects-proposal-to-cut-required-pilot-training-hours | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Books donated to Sebastian County jail
Fort Smith church also gives books to assisted living centers
Mary Jane Mustard was the first to say it.
"Buck A Book," she said one day while working at the St. John's Episcopal Church Bookstore in Fort Smith. She was talking about a stack of books that had been leftover from a sale. The name stuck for a program to give books away for free.
This is the name for an ongoing roundup of hundreds of donated books a month that find a new home in the Sebastian County Jail or at assisted living centers.
Seven years ago, Mustard started the program to get the most use out of books.
"I started it. I'm the coordinator." She spelled out her last name, "M-u-s-t-a-r-d. Just like you put on your hamburger."
She recalls walking down a hallway of the St. John's Episcopal Church, 214 N. 6. In the bookstore open Tuesdays and Thursdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekly, there are books for $1. Some of the antique books are $5, such as several written by Winston Churchill, Mustard said.
There was a bunch of books over by the bookstore leftover from a sale, she said..
"I said, "Why can't we put them out and let people have them?" Mustard recalled.
On a Sunday morning she sold those leftovers for a "Buck a Book." The name stuck."Seben years later here we are,"
The books that are free are taken to the jail. Those are the paperbacks that are used.
"We take them regularly now. We had been shut down for COVID and we had not been allowed to take any," Mustard said.
Before the pandemic, church volunteers delivered books to 31 assisted living centers, she said. Book donations have resumed.
A volunteer from the church takes the paperbacks to jail.
"Hardbacks are considered a weapon," Mustard said.
Books are also donated to the Community Rescue Mission.
"It's just an outreach that costs nobody any money," Mustard said.
There are children's books.
"We encourage parents to read to their children at night," Mustard said. "It's an ongoing ministry."
She said thousands of books have been donated, and hundreds are donated each month. A volunteer from the church takes boxes to the jail. There were seven boxes of books donated to Savers recently to go toward the Fort Smith Boys & Girls Club.
Donations of books can be arranged by calling Mustard at 479-883-1488. | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/09/19/st-john-episcopal-books-donated-to-jail-assisted-living-centers/69492536007/ | 2022-09-19T20:33:25Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/09/19/st-john-episcopal-books-donated-to-jail-assisted-living-centers/69492536007/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
One dead in Paris, Arkansas shooting Monday
Shooting in Paris, Arkansas leaves one dead Monday
Fort Smith Times Record
One person was killed in a shooting at a Sonic Drive-In in Paris Monday, authorities report.
The Logan County Sheriff's office reported a person has been arrested. The names of those involved have not been released. The Arkansas State Police investigators are working on the case.
In a social media post Monday, the Logan County Sheriff's office reported, "There was a shooting today at the Sonic in Paris. The victim is deceased. The suspect has been located and is in custody. The Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division is investigating."
A spokesman for the Arkansas State Police reported Monday the first call reported the shooting as a possible suicide. | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/crime/2022/09/19/one-dead-in-paris-arkansas-shooting/69504411007/ | 2022-09-19T20:33:31Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/crime/2022/09/19/one-dead-in-paris-arkansas-shooting/69504411007/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Arkansas football vs. Alabama game time, TV details announced
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas football's game against Alabama on Oct. 1 has its kickoff time and TV network. The No. 10 Razorbacks will face the No. 2 Crimson Tide at 2:30 p.m. CT on CBS.
Arkansas (3-0) has not beaten Alabama since 2006, before Nick Saban was the Tide's head coach. Alabama leads the all-time series 22-8.
The Tide (3-0) will come into the game after a Week 4 clash with Vanderbilt at home. Arkansas will be fresh off a matchup with No. 20 Texas A&M at AT&T Stadium in Arlington on Saturday (6 p.m. CT, ESPN).
MAILBAG:Can Arkansas football solely blame injuries for secondary struggles?
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Arkansas hosts Alabama this season after losing a close game in Tuscaloosa in 2021. KJ Jefferson threw for the second-most passing yards of his career with 326, but Alabama's Bryce Young set a program record with 559. The Razorbacks fell 42-35 to the eventual national runner-up.
The Razorbacks' 2022 roster includes a former Alabama player in linebacker Drew Sanders. Sanders played in 24 games with three starts in two seasons with the Tide. He is now Arkansas' leader in sacks with 5.5 through three games.
Christina Long covers the Arkansas Razorbacks for the Southwest Times Record and USA Today Network. You can follow her on Twitter @christinalong00 or email her at clong@swtimes.com. | https://www.swtimes.com/story/sports/college/2022/09/19/arkansas-football-alabama-time-tv-network-announced/69502188007/ | 2022-09-19T20:33:37Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/sports/college/2022/09/19/arkansas-football-alabama-time-tv-network-announced/69502188007/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
How Arkansas football coach Sam Pittman wants to solve Razorbacks' secondary woes
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas football's secondary has been its weakest link through the first three games of the season. The Razorbacks have allowed the most passing yards per game in FBS with 352.7. It's an issue No. 10 Arkansas (3-0) has to find a way to resolve before facing No. 20 Texas A&M (2-1) on Saturday (6 p.m. CT, ESPN) at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Coach Sam Pittman recognizes the problem, but he and his staff are still determining how to solve it. He said Monday that Arkansas will continue to rotate players throughout its secondary and "experiment" with defensive backs.
"First thing is, you have to make sure you have the right people in the right spots," Pittman said. "Do we have our best players on the field?"
Pittman said Malik Chavis is one of the players he needs on the field, and he's been rotating him at cornerback and safety. It's a prime example of Pittman's philosophy that the five best defensive backs need to be on the field, almost regardless of position.
MAILBAG:Can Arkansas football solely blame injuries for secondary struggles?
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One of the Razorbacks' best players could be back on the field Saturday. Pittman said starting nickelback Myles Slusher, who has missed two games because of an undisclosed injury, is expected to be back in practice Monday. Arkansas has started freshman Jayden Johnson at nickel in his stead the past two games.
Getting Slusher back would be a big boost to the secondary. Pittman said Slusher can play nickel, field safety or boundary safety, which makes him a valuable piece in a secondary that's doing a lot of shuffling.
But having one player back isn't going to solve Arkansas' tackling woes. Pittman said the team had worked on open-field tackling in practice in the lead-up to the Missouri State game, but according to Pro Football Focus, the Razorbacks missed 43 tackles during their 38-27 victory against the Bears.
"We didn't tackle well as a team," Pittman said. "We're having a hard time covering opponents. We've had that the entire year."
Christina Long covers the Arkansas Razorbacks for the Southwest Times Record and USA Today Network. You can follow her on Twitter @christinalong00 or email her at clong@swtimes.com. | https://www.swtimes.com/story/sports/college/2022/09/19/arkansas-football-sam-pittman-improving-razorbacks-secondary-myles-slusher/68251232007/ | 2022-09-19T20:33:44Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/sports/college/2022/09/19/arkansas-football-sam-pittman-improving-razorbacks-secondary-myles-slusher/68251232007/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
One year after breakthrough, Arkansas football sees another big opportunity vs. Texas A&M
FAYETTEVILLE — One year ago, Arkansas football entered Week 4 with a spotless record after a huge win over Texas. The then-No. 16 Razorbacks had more hope after the rivalry win than they had in years, and they carried it into AT&T Stadium to face No. 7 Texas A&M.
Arkansas beat the Aggies for the first time in a decade.
"I remember going into the locker room after the game and we were 4-0 at the time, and it felt awful good," coach Sam Pittman said Monday. "I felt like it would do something for us on a national (level), and I knew it would help us in recruiting. ... I thought it was an important game for us to have as a win."
MORE:How Arkansas football coach Sam Pittman wants to solve Razorbacks' secondary woes
LOOKING AHEAD:What Arkansas football needs to change — and keep the same — with Texas A&M next
The 2022 Southwest Classic on Saturday (6 p.m. CT, ESPN) is a vastly different situation. The Razorbacks once again enter the game 3-0, but they are now a top-10 team facing a lower-ranked Texas A&M, even though the No. 20 Aggies (2-1) are favored by 2.5 points.
Momentum, however, appears to favor Arkansas after the Aggies' loss to Appalachian State in Week 2. Texas A&M righted the ship with a win over No. 13 Miami in Week 3, but the preseason hype it carried seems to be dwindling.
Arkansas returns a number of starters from this game a season ago, but this is still a different Razorback squad. Pittman noted in particular the progress of quarterback KJ Jefferson.
"Going into last year’s game against A&M, our main concern was, ‘How are we going to run KJ?'" Pittman said. "But now, he can hurt you either way. Very confident throwing the football."
Jefferson was used less in the running game than usual against Missouri State, but he threw for a career-high 385 yards. Texas A&M's secondary will provide a challenge for Jefferson and his receivers, but Jefferson's running ability and physicality give Arkansas multiple looks.
Pittman pointed out that the Aggies' defense has faced two very different offenses in its previous two games. Appalachian State, he said, is a physical, "'we're-coming-at-you'" bunch. Miami, however, used its receivers more prominently.
Arkansas seems to present a blend of the two. Raheim Sanders has three consecutive 100-yard rushing performances and has been more productive than Pittman anticipated. Receiver Matt Landers is coming off a career day against Missouri State, and Jadon Haselwood is as big a threat out wide.
As for Texas A&M's offense, the Aggies have a different quarterback than last time they met Arkansas. But the Razorbacks have faced Max Johnson before: In their 16-13 win over LSU last season. Johnson started for the Tigers but was benched in favor of Garrett Nussmeier after two drives. Johnson got his first start for the Aggies over Haynes King against Miami.
Pittman said he doesn't see much difference between Johnson at LSU and Texas A&M.
"He’s still a guy that can hurt you with his feet, just like they used him a little bit at LSU," Pittman said. "But he’s in there to manage the game and throw the football. To me, he was at LSU and is at A&M."
The Southwest Classic is a different beast than it was a year ago. The teams are on different footing than they were then, and their approaches have changed. But Arkansas football needs a win now just as much as it did then. A victory over Texas A&M would be a win over a team projected to finish ahead of the Razorbacks in the SEC West. And it would mean a 4-0 record heading into the matchup with No. 2 Alabama.
Christina Long covers the Arkansas Razorbacks for the Southwest Times Record and USA Today Network. You can follow her on Twitter @christinalong00 or email her at clong@swtimes.com. | https://www.swtimes.com/story/sports/college/2022/09/19/arkansas-football-vs-texas-am-2022-sam-pittman-kj-jefferson/68252197007/ | 2022-09-19T20:33:50Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/sports/college/2022/09/19/arkansas-football-vs-texas-am-2022-sam-pittman-kj-jefferson/68252197007/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Arkansas high school football statewide rankings for Week 4
The following are the overall top 10 high school football teams in Arkansas and the top five in Classes 7A, 6A, 5A, 4A, 3A, 2A, and the top three in the two 8-man divisions as voted by a panel of sports media from around the state for Week 4 of the 2022 season. The ranking is given with first-place votes received, records, total points, and last week's ranking:
Others receiving votes: Little Rock Parkview 10, Little Rock Christian 8, Benton 8, Harding Academy 6, North Little Rock 4, Rogers 3, Joe T Robinson 2, Magnolia 1, Arkadelphia 1.
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Others receiving votes: Bentonville West 3.
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Others receiving votes: Benton 12, Marion 4, West Memphis 2.
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Others receiving votes: Camden Fairview 18, Farmington1 5, Nettleton 1.
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Others receiving votes: Star City 9, Lamar 5, Stuttgart 5, Clinton 2, McGehee 2.
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Others receiving votes: Charleston 28, Fordyce 2, Lavaca 1, Newport 1, Yellville-Summit 1.
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Others receiving votes: Des Arc 16, Clarendon 10, East Poinsett County 10, Poyen 8, Dierks 2, Hector 2, Little Rock Episcopal 2.
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Others receiving votes: Parkers Chapel 2, Subiaco Academy 2.
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Others receiving votes: Rector 9, Woodlawn 3, Strong-Huttig 2. | https://www.swtimes.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/09/19/arkansas-high-school-football-statewide-rankings-entering-week-4-2022/69499176007/ | 2022-09-19T20:33:56Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/09/19/arkansas-high-school-football-statewide-rankings-entering-week-4-2022/69499176007/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Family Dollar is recalling six different Colgate products sold in their stores across 11 states because they were stored "outside of labeled temperature requirements."
The Colgate products, mostly toothpaste, were sold in Arizona, California, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Texas and Utah.
The products were sold on or around May 1, 2022 through June 21, 2022.
Products covered by this recall include:
Customers that may have bought the affected products may return them to the Family Dollar store where they were purchased without receipt.
Those with questions regarding about this recall may contact Family Dollar Customer Service at 844-636-7687 between 9am and 5pm EST.
Customers should contact their physician or health care provider if they have experienced any problems that may be related to using these products, the FDA says. | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/family-dollar-recalling-colgate-products-stored-improperly/article_d731092a-384c-11ed-9598-6b8e7da14f85.html | 2022-09-19T20:35:38Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/family-dollar-recalling-colgate-products-stored-improperly/article_d731092a-384c-11ed-9598-6b8e7da14f85.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Summer time heat and humidity returning
- David Karnes
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Good Monday. lest we forget we are in the waning days of summer... the heat (and humidity) will be cranked up Tuesday and Wednesday. We will make it to 93 on Tuesday afternoon and 95 will be the high Wednesday. While those numbers are well above the average high of 83, we would have to make it to the upper 90s to break any records. Both days will be dry.
Thursday marks the first day of fall, and though we will see a front moving through it will still remain warm with a high of 90. The cooler air will finally arrive Friday. Temps will range from 60 in the morning to only 77 in the afternoon under mostly sunny skies and low humidity.
The weekend starts warm, but nice, with a high of 83. Sunday another front will move through bringing sporadic showers in the afternoon and another shot of cooler air for NEXT Monday.
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When Apple released iOS 16, one of the most exciting new features is the ability to customize the iPhone lock and home screens. Yeah, Android fans have had this ability for years and many iPhone users pleaded with Apple to do the same thing.
The new options offer plenty of ways to create a one-of-a-kind lock screen but it's still a bit limited. Now, a 2-year-old app has surged to the top of the App Store rankings as people began tinkering with their screens and looking for more tools.
Widgetsmith (free) is a virtual toolbox of iPhone screen customizations. It's fairly simple to use and it has lots of YouTube video links within the app that show how to set them up.
To get started I opened the Widgetsmith app and created a few circular widgets that I'll place on the home screen. You can create as many as you want, to display weather information, different styles of time and temperature, calendar and reminder widgets, photos, and even website links.
Once you create your customized widgets, you can go back to your home screen to set them up. The phone needs to be unlocked but you don't have to swipe anywhere. Hard press on the home screen (the screen that only shows the date and time) and then tap the "customize" button at the bottom of the page.
Here you'll find all of the available widgets you can add to that home screen. There is room below the time display to add up to 4 small circular widgets or a combination of 2 circular and one horizontal widget. Facebook, Google, and Apple (among others) have their own widgets, but you can scroll down to the Widgetsmith app to choose the one you just created.
For example, I created a Widgetsmith widget to display my daily step count and progress toward my goal. I also chose a weather conditions widget, one for the current moon phase and one with my website link.
I then further customized my home and lock screen by choosing a photo from my camera roll, changing the font and color of the date and time display, and adding a filter to the photo. Once I had it the way I like, I hit "done" in the top right corner of the screen.
My lock and home screen look unique. The learning curve for Widgetsmith is fairly short but you may need to watch a couple of how-to videos to get started.
Widgetsmith is a free app with some limitations. A full version is $2/month. And all the Android users say "yeah, Apple stole that from us too". | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/what-the-tech-app-of-the-day-widgetsmith-allows-users-to-customize-smartphone-screens/article_eefd4b52-3853-11ed-8d4f-8bb03c4c43be.html | 2022-09-19T20:35:51Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/what-the-tech-app-of-the-day-widgetsmith-allows-users-to-customize-smartphone-screens/article_eefd4b52-3853-11ed-8d4f-8bb03c4c43be.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“You know how in the old sitcom the characters always do the right thing?” says young showrunner Hannah (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rachel Bloom) in the pilot of Hulu’s new comedy, Reboot. She’s pitching a renovated version of beloved 1990s family comedy Step Right Up to some Hulu executives. “They don’t always do the right thing anymore!” she promises. “I fuck with it, but in a fun way.”
Television loves to play with itself, and Reboot joins a long line of TV shows about TV shows, from The Dick Van Dyke Show and Murphy Brown to Extras and The Comeback. We are often told to “write what you know best”—hence the frequent appearances of plotlines focused on writers’ insecurities, awkward backstage encounters, and squabbles with network executives. What better way to work through your behind-the-scenes traumas and skewer your nemeses than making attractive performers re-enact the conflicts and ego-driven tantrums in your own TV series? 30 Rock, Bojack Horseman and It’s Garry Shandling’s Show (the grandaddy of the meta-TV sitcom) all set a high bar for small-screen satire. Alas, despite its cute premise, Reboot doesn’t quite reach that mark.
Streaming has transformed our ideas of television comedy over the last decade. The broadcast network’s broad, risk-averse templates and well-worn punchlines unraveled into a more adventurous, open-ended idea of the situation comedy, more likely to be filmed in real locations rather than on-stage sets in front of a live audience.
These days, that old-school network TV model sometimes feels like a fossil from some half-remembered past, when laughter was canned and jokes detonated punctually every 45 seconds. Reboot sets up its shop in this gap between the old and new styles of entertainment. It’s the brainchild of Steven Levitan, who co-created Modern Family, one of broadcast’s last massive must-see comedies that could appeal to all ages and to hip and square audiences alike. Levitan toiled in the sitcom salt mines for decades before Family, writing for Frasier and meta-comedy The Larry Sanders Show (the follow-up to It’s Garry Shandling’s Show) early in his career before going on to invent his own hits.
Fictional showrunner Hannah is an indie filmmaker determined to find edgy new life in the bygone (fictional) Step Right Up, a broad, Full House-ish sitcom. In the process she revives the careers of original cast members Bree (Judy Greer), Reed (Keegan Michael-Key), Clay (Johnny Knoxville), and former child star Zack (Calum Worthy), all of whom have tumbled into post-primetime purgatory. Reed’s last role was as the voice of a hemorrhoid, but his theatrical aspirations are flattered by Hannah’s darkly comedic script. “It’s both the funniest thing you’ve ever read and you won’t laugh once,” he marvels. So Reed is devastated when Gordon (Paul Reiser), the show’s original showrunner, is hired to partner with Hannah. He wants to tilt Hannah's fresh take on the show back toward the original (read: cheesy) tone. A generational tug of war ensues that is also a battle between television’s past and future: tried-and-tired Pavlovian comedy, all signposted gags and stock characters, versus streaming-era dramedy with its signature genre blending and mixed moods.
Gordon is politically incorrect at every turn. “Is this one of those diversity intern training things?” he asks when he meets Hannah’s young and trendy crop of writers. “The lessons you’re gonna learn? Invaluable. Case in point: misunderstandings. Always funny!” He is befuddled by their newfangled references to the Bechdel Test. One young woman suggests, “This is probably too meta but what if [the female characters] bond by talking about Alison Bechdel?” Uninterested in meta-humor, Gordon brings in his own crop of crusty television vets who say inappropriate things in the writers room but know how to craft classic jokes. “We don’t shlep in a live audience every week so they can sit there and nod in thoughtful amusement,” he scolds. “We need them to actually laugh!”
Nodding in vaguely thoughtful amusement, I realized that Reboot beat me to all my criticisms. The jokes are often clever and well-written, but they don’t really make you laugh. The actors are all delightful to watch (how long have I waited for Judy Greer to get the starring role she deserves?) but the characters remain trapped under a layer of cliches, even while they try to escape their archetypes. Nothing in the show makes me care about what happens to them the way I became painfully involved in the struggles of the mournful, washed-up sitcom star Bojack Horseman and his steadfast Hollywoo agent Princess Carolyn. Which is saying something given that that series was an absurdist animation in which Bojack is an actual horse and Carolyn is a pink cat. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/hulu-reboot-show-review-stop-me-if-youve-seen-this-one-before | 2022-09-19T20:38:07Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/hulu-reboot-show-review-stop-me-if-youve-seen-this-one-before | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After record-breaking box office hauls for Titanic and Avatar, James Cameron has been anointed king of the blockbuster world, a title he doesn’t mind touting in a pinch. During a recent interview with The New York Times, the filmmaker said he “clashed” with studio executives at 20th Century Fox over Avatar’s run time and the amount of “flying around on the ikran.” Cameron’s response was to play the Titanic card, invoking his 1997 film’s $1.8 billion box office haul.
“And that’s a place where I just drew a line in the sand and said, ‘You know what? I made Titanic,’” he told the Times. “‘This building that we’re meeting in right now, this new half-billion-dollar complex on your lot? Titanic paid for that, so I get to do this.’ And afterward, they thanked me.” Cameron added, “I feel that my job is to protect their investment, often against their own judgment. But as long as I protect their investment, all is forgiven.”
Avatar would go on to gross more than $2.8 billion worldwide after its December 2009 debut, a release month shared by both Titanic and the upcoming Avatar: The Way of Water, which hits theaters on December 16, 2022. Although it’s been nearly 13 years since the original Pandora spectacle was released, Cameron feels confident that audiences will flock to theaters precisely because of the gap. “I think I could have made a sequel two years later and have it bomb because people didn’t relate to the characters or the direction of the film,” he said, citing his success with Aliens and Terminator 2—a pair of sequels released seven years after their respective original films. He continued: “I was a little concerned that I had stretched the tether too far, in our fast-paced, modern world, with Avatar 2 coming in 12 years later. Right until we dropped the teaser trailer, and we got 148 million views in 24 hours.”
Avatar: The Way of Water will reunite Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), alongside their children, as well as returning cast members Stephen Lang and Sigourney Weaver. New arrivals will include Kate Winslet, Michelle Yeoh, and Vin Diesel. Filming on Avatar 3, due in 2024, has also reportedly been completed. As Cameron told the Times: “It’s such an intense process when you’re editing a film and you have to fight for every frame that stays in.”
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On Sunday evening, Politico published a lengthy story on turmoil inside The Los Angeles Times. Last year, the legacy newspaper got a new executive editor, Kevin Merida, a veteran journalist intent on bringing the struggling outlet into its next era. Yet it wasn’t Merida at the center of Politico’s sprawling report; it was his boss, billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, who since 2018 has managed the Times with the help of his wife, Michele Chan, and daughter, Nika Soon-Shiong. While the billionaire's purchase of the paper may have been key to its survival, an “awkward and at times tense relationship…has developed between the newsroom and the ownership family,” Politico reports, noting “accusations that ownership, including Nika Soon-Shiong, is meddling in news coverage.”
“Neither [Nika] nor her parents have any idea what it means to run a media institution,” a former Times executive told Politico. “And they have in their own way resisted efforts to learn. They don’t care that much about the institution’s history. They’re not super interested in the media in general, in terms of how it works.”
Speaking with more than three dozen current and former staffers, Politico observed a widespread sense of concern for the paper's editorial independence under the Soon-Shiong family. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a pharmaceutical executive, has "contacted multiple Times journalists during the pandemic to urge them to write specific stories featuring people he has worked with on vaccines," Politico reported. The political activism of Nika, Patrick’s 29-year-old daughter—who called out one of the paper’s reporters a few months ago over an article perceived by activists as pro-law enforcement—has also rankled staffers. Since being appointed as West Hollywood public safety commissioner, she has at least twice “pitched [Times journalists] on the commission’s work and complained about headlines,” Politico reported. In addition, staffers fear that the family has influenced the paper's endorsements of political candidates, particularly in the mayoral primary between Democratic Representative Karen Bass, who the paper endorsed, and billionaire developer Rick Caruso. At one point, Caruso directly expressed concerns to a Times reporter that the paper's coverage might be slanted.
In a statement to Politico, Nika Soon-Shiong disputed the “suggestion that I control the editorial decisions of the paper” while acknowledging that she “advocate[s]” for her interests, particularly with respect to criminal justice reform and poverty. “There are profound problems with the media’s coverage of safety issues,” she said, “and these problems sometimes manifest themselves at the LA Times, just as they do at virtually every other major outlet.” Merida and vice president of communications Hillary Manning “disputed that Patrick or Nika Soon-Shiong had explicitly ordered certain stories or editorials be written,” per Politico.
Politico’s Sunday story is, as founding editor John Harris tweeted, “the third piece into turmoil at major legacy publications in as many weeks." Last month, The New York Times published a piece on the internal frustrations and financial struggles at The Washington Post (which Jeff Bezos bought in 2013), writing that business has “stalled in the past year" as "the breakneck news pace of the Trump administration faded away.” The Post's problems reportedly revolve around CEO and publisher Fred Ryan, a Bezos hire who has frustrated some top executives amid a sudden discontinuation of marketing efforts, a stringent approach to getting people back in the office, and “inconclusive talks about acquiring another large news organization." Meanwhile, The New York Times is having trouble of its own. According to a New York piece from last week, the paper is still steeped in bitter wage negotiations between the NewsGuild, which represents hundreds of New York Times staffers, and the paper's management. “It seems to them that the admiralty who run the place—a Sulzberger scion, a CEO who made $5.8 million last year, and an executive editor whose father co-founded Staples—are being awfully miserly,” New York wrote.
Semafor’s Ben Smith pointed to the LA Times tumult as part of a bigger picture. “A few years into the billionaire-ownership era of media (LAT, WaPo, Time, Intercept),” he tweeted, “you see both the upside—financially stable institutions, good traditional journalism—but also directionless businesses and royal court politics.”
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Years before Queen Elizabeth II passed away at her beloved Balmoral on September 8, 2022, the state plans for her death, dubbed Operation London Bridge, were already concrete. This foresight, so typical of the queen’s pragmatic, no-nonsense personality, was a far cry from the confusion that greeted the death of England’s last great queen.
In January 1901, 81-year-old Queen Victoria lay dying at Osborne House, on the Isle of Wight. According to Stewart Richards’s fascinating Curtain Down at Her Majesty’s, as the queen lay peacefully while surrounded by family, in another room courtiers were frantically attempting to figure out what came next.
“As the last death of a sovereign had occurred in 1837, no one seemed to know what the procedure was,” wrote Sir Frederick Ponsonby, the queen’s harried equerry in ordinary and assistant private secretary. “We spent the evening looking up what had been done when George IV and William IV had died.”
With no photos for reference, and few people alive who remembered the last sovereign’s death, royal servants were at a loss. “The ignorance of historical precedent in men whose business it is to know is wonderful,” Reginald Brett, Viscount Esher wrote cheekily.
They had little time to find out. At 6:30 p.m. on January 22, Queen Victoria died while being held by her grandson Kaiser Wilhelm II. Though Victoria’s oldest son, now King Edward VII, tried to control the narrative by releasing news of his mother’s death, a media frenzy quickly took hold. “I was told the scene on the hill down to Cowes [on the Isle of Wight] was disgraceful,” Ponsonby wrote, per Richards. “Reporters in carriages and on bicycles were seen racing for the post office in East Cowes, and men were shouting as they ran, ‘The queen is dead.’”
From the start, things seemed to go wrong. The queen had requested that she not be embalmed, so a coffin had to be ordered quickly. However, when the undertaker’s assistant arrived, it was discovered that he had not brought the expected coffin, as he claimed he needed to take the deceased queen’s measurements.
The pugnacious Kaiser Wilhelm, already despised by most of his British relatives for his unpleasant personality, was disgusted. “It is always like this,” he raged, per Richards. “When an ordinary, humble person dies, everything is arranged quite easily and with reverence and care. When a ‘personage’ dies, you fellows all lose your heads and make stupid mistakes which you ought to be ashamed of. The same happens in Germany as in England: You are all alike!”
Unwilling to let the uncouth assistant touch the hallowed queen, the kaiser and other courtiers took matters into their own hands.
“If the occasion had been a less grave and solemn one, there would have been much that was humorous in the emperor’s harangue to the rather dull undertaker’s assistant,” Randall Davidson, Bishop of Winchester recalled. “The emperor frightened the poor fellow into helpless obedience. The man was simply terrified. He was so unsuitable a person, as it appeared to me, that we declined to leave him (as he wished) in the room to take the necessary measurements, and as a matter of fact the measurements were taken by the emperor, [Sir James] Reid, and myself, under the direction of the man, who stood by and told us exactly what he wanted. It was altogether a curious scene.”
A fight also broke out between Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk and Edward Hyde Villiers, Lord Chamberlain—over who had the royal right to arrange the funeral. The Duke of Norfolk, also the earl marshal, prevailed (the present earl marshal, Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk, is currently arranging the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II), causing bad blood between the two camps. “The Lord Chamberlain is very sorry, and is likely to decline to give assistance,” one contemporary noted, per Richards. “Indeed, it will be lucky if these two ceremonial dignitaries don’t come to loggerheads.”
The Duke of Norfolk luckily had some guidance. Three years before her death, Queen Victoria had written that she wanted a state funeral with military honors—the same template royal funerals follow to this day. She wanted it done “with respect— but simply.” Curiously, for a woman obsessed with death and mourning—who had worn black for decades in honor of her beloved husband Prince Albert’s early death—Victoria requested a white funeral, with no public lying in state and no hearse to carry her coffin. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/queen-victorias-funeral-was-almost-a-majestic-mess | 2022-09-19T20:38:31Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/queen-victorias-funeral-was-almost-a-majestic-mess | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Reese Witherspoon proved yet again that the genes in her family run strong.
The actress posted a photo to her Instagram account on Sunday of herself, her mother Betty, and her daughter Ava all enjoying brunch together while looking like three generations of carbon copies. Reese opted for a white button up for the meal, while her 23-year-old daughter chose a simple white tank top and pigtail braids, and her 73-year-old mother chose a navy blue blazer and tank, pearls, and a Gucci crossbody bag, completing her look with a bright red lip. “Sunday brunch crew,” the Oscar winner captioned the shot.
And this isn't the first time the trio has posed for a multi-generational portrait. In January 2019, they were photographed together as part of Reese's cover shoot for Vogue. In the interview accompanying the images, Reese recalled being a young mom, bringing her daughter to set with her while making Legally Blonde, the same way her mother brought her to work when she was a labor and delivery nurse at Nashville, Tennessee’s Vanderbilt hospital. She told the magazine about going to work with Betty and watching her “take care of seventeen babies at once. There would usually be two women, and they’d be doing all the diapering, all the feeding—everything, all at once.” She added, “And the crying of the babies! The noise! She said she didn’t even hear it. I remember being so in awe of my mom. She always had a positive attitude, always laughing, always telling a joke, and she always had a billion friends at work. She just loved the women she worked with.”
That brunch post also came shortly after the actress celebrated a landmark anniversary for her 2002 romantic-comedy Sweet Home Alabama. “20 years ago Sweet Home Alabama came out and completely changed my life,” Reese wrote. “So many great scenes with these amazing actors—Josh [Lucas], Patrick [Dempsey], Dakota [Fanning], Melanie [Lynskey], Jean [Smart], Ethan [Embry], Mary Kay [Place], Fred [Ward], and Candace [Bergen] [sic], of course!” The Hello Sunshine founder then highlighted her personal favorite line from the film, sharing a clip of the scene where a young version of her character Melanie, played by Fanning, asks Thomas Curtis's Jake Perry, “Why would you wanna marry me for, anyhow?” to which the young boy responds, “So I can kiss you anytime I want.”
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Forget NYC Fashion Week: DC just hit the style spotlight with Design Army’s new CityCenterDC campaign, redefining luxury and repositioning our nation’s capital as the creative/fashion-forward city it actually is, in the most fun, whimsical way ever! The wildly witty spot for the city’s biggest shopping and dining district celebrates self-expression to the ultimate with a crazy, quirky train journey full of eclectic characters of every age and style sense, all on the fast track to a place where creativity is applauded. Backdropped by DC’s majestic landmarks, the meticulously art directed, anything-but-typical campaign explodes with eye-popping color and unexpected references, like 1940s jazz music, a twist of hip-hop, over-the-top forks, show horses, and more.
Even the custom typography has personality all its own. Seriously, it’s the best show of how style is truly ageless. What’s more luxurious than that?
Branded Photography
Design Army oversaw every aspect of production, creating the most fierce and colorful world with original concepts, art direction, styling, set design, and props.
Social Media Campaign
Video and Video Stills for “Celebrating You”
A behind the scenes on how the magic is done
CLIENT: CityCenterDC | Hines
General Manager: Timothy R. Lowery
Director of Marketing & Public Relations: Melissa Hudak King
Social Media & Events Coordinator: Daniela Rambal Pinero
CREATIVE AGENCY: Design Army
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer: Pum Lefebure
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer: Jake Lefebure
Creative Director: Heloise Condroyer
Creative Director: Sucha Becky
Creative Director: Mariela Hsu
Designer: Tony Kim
Copywriter: Mark Welsh
Animator: Jason Chae
VIDEO & PHOTOGRAPHY: Dean Alexander Productions
Director and Photographer: Dean Alexander
1st Assistant Director: Erin Winebrenner
Director of Photography: Andrew Strobridge
Camera Operator: Daniel St. Ours
Production Superviso: Timmi Wolff
Assistant Production Supervisor: Nancy Swenton
Photographer: Dean Alexander
Editor: David Grossbach
Sound Design: Simon Lister, Squeak E. Clean Studios
Colorgrade: Parker Jarvie, Company 3
VFX: Tonic.co
Retoucher: Supervision
Social Media Photographer: Seth Stenske | https://www.printmag.com/branding-identity-design/design-army-redefines-luxury/ | 2022-09-19T20:40:31Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/branding-identity-design/design-army-redefines-luxury/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Patrick Mitchell, who runs Modus Operandi Design studio in Rockport, ME, is a highly accomplished magazine designer/art director (think Fast Company and Inc. Magazine, among others) and podcaster (Print is Dead). Milton Academy is a coed, independent preparatory, boarding and day school in Milton, MA. Mitchell and Milton have merged, at least in one respect, to produce Milton magazine, which was just awarded the 2022 Sibley Magazine of the Year Award. I admit to being surprised that a school’s quarterly was held in such esteem for its editorial and design, so I asked Mitchell to talk about the project.
Milton makes me assume one thing but, in fact, it is another. Who is the publisher of Milton?
It’s published by Milton Academy’s comms department.
Why is a high school putting so much of its resources into a print periodical?
I’m a little mystified, too, though we are very efficient with our truly limited budget. Its primary purposes are recruiting, alumni engagement (i.e., financial support)—and their support of our work does suggest that the magazine gives them some one-upmanship over rival schools recruiting the same genius kids.
What is your favorite part of doing Milton?
Traditional publishing has gotten so depressing—the poor paper quality, super-thin issues, reduced frequency, combined with a real lack of imagination. These alumni magazines are small, infrequent, and have an intentionally limited circulation, but they care—really care—about quality. They’re putting themselves out there and, in the case of Milton, investing in this publication is a real competitive advantage. All of that allows me to do good work and to hire very talented photographers and illustrators, who also don’t get nearly the volume of magazine work they used to. We all win.
I presume that your staff is small, but the quality of everything—from illustrations to the layouts—is impeccable. What determined your design style?
My staff is essentially me. I’ve occasionally been able to bring on help when I get very busy, but mostly I work alone. I have good relationships with contributors, and the work we produce helps us continue to make new relationships with photographers and illustrators. The design style is usually simple—there’s no point in over-designing, but it always comes back to something the great Fred Woodward told me when I was just starting out: “I just hire great artists and try not to let what I do make them look bad.” It was something like that. | https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-this-is-not-the-milton-that-you-think-it-is/ | 2022-09-19T20:40:37Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-this-is-not-the-milton-that-you-think-it-is/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“An embroiderer’s skill is actually revealed by the quality of the work on the reverse side of the fabric— the hidden intersection of threads and knots that hold the embroidery in place. It is not seen immediately, and yet must be impeccable. Perhaps a book works somewhat like embroidery. Its pages are held together by a thread that is also hidden. It is behind the scenes but without it, nothing exists. It is the symbol of what we do not tell and which, nevertheless, is necessary.”
—Anaïs Beaulieu, creator of A Stitch Out of Time
French artist Anaïs Beaulieu weaves the world of books and embroidery together in A Stitch Out of Time, published by Tara Books in South India. The Chennai-based independent publisher is known for handmade and experimental book forms, which makes Beaulieu’s book feel right at home in their collection. This herbarium of photographs depicts plastic bags that the artist embroidered with endangered species of plants, and even features an actual embroidered plastic bag on its cover.
Tara Books has a reputation for preserving handcrafted book production, which includes making their own paper as well as silkscreen-printing and binding their publications by hand. They also work with environmentally sustainable Riso printing and old-school letterpress, and they hope to bring the physical book back into focus in a digital age keen on casting it aside. “To us, the form of the book is as important as its content— and we continue to draw on Asian as well as other traditions of book craft to redefine the boundaries of the book, as we know them,” their promotional materials read. A Stitch Out of Time is no exception, as a true labor of love in which the artist’s hand has been preserved.
“Even by our adventurous standards, this book was a production nightmare,” Tara Books founder Gita Wolf admitted in a blog post about the book’s production. “It looks lovely, but its tactile beauty is best experienced by running a hand over the front and feeling the textures of the textile cover, the smooth plastic insert and the raised threads of the embroidery.”
The impetus for A Stitch Out of Time was a plastic bag on which Beaulieu had embroidered an ivy plant. “The idea had come to me in Burkina Faso a year earlier, when I had driven by a field choked with plastic bags,” Beaulieu reflected in the aforementioned blog post. When the artist showed her initial piece to the Tara Books founder at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Wolf’s book brain was immediately activated. She insisted they collaborate to turn the piece into a published series of Beaulieu’s embroidered plastic works.
This unique project combines multiple artisanal processes, including embroidery, tailoring, book-binding, and screen-printing. To keep the thread going, Beaulieu and the Tara Book team also created a special embroidered bag for the book. “We wanted the delicate cover of the book to be protected, and at the same time offer readers a chance to try their own hand at embroidery— this they can do on one side of the bag,” writes Beaulieu.
A Stitch Out of Time is available for purchase now through Tara Books for $44.95. | https://www.printmag.com/design-books/a-stitch-out-of-time/ | 2022-09-19T20:40:44Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/design-books/a-stitch-out-of-time/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
First in a series to help you expand your value by becoming fluent in the Language of Business™
As designers, we are accustomed to fielding questions about resolution, pixels, PMS, typography, kerning, Lorum Ipsum, hex codes, UX, CMYK— it’s as if we have our own language.
But do you speak the language of business? Because when we’re talking with our clients— whether internal or external— they are typically not designers or creative professionals. Instead, they may be from marketing, operations, finance, or sales, and their focus is not so much on the font or finishing we’re recommending, but on the budget, cost, logistics, and ROI. (We’ll get to ROI in another installment of this series— stay tuned.)
Understanding and conversing with clients in business terminology reshapes conversations from subjective to objective, where we discuss our “why” behind a design and how it is, well, designed to achieve specific business goals.
From aesthetics to economics
Similar to our design world, the world of business has a long list of relevant terms. For this series, I’m focusing on The Business 6™— the top six terms to begin building your business vocabulary. When we understand these terms, synthesize them, and use them correctly in conversations and meetings, we’re no longer just talking about aesthetics or color palettes or fonts. Instead, we’re talking about economics; we’re asking about sales goals; we’re listening to strategies for gaining market share.
When we do share our knowledge about a particular design’s advantages— perhaps research that shows consumers spend more time with interactive packaging, or that shoppers are more likely to pick up a product with tactile finishing, or even why we choose green over blue— we can frame our design, data, and scientific-based input within our client’s business goals. The Business 6™ are tools we can use to expand our understanding, credibility, and impact. You’ll find that clients are more receptive to your input when the point you make is in their language.
It’s not design— it’s design strategy
The Business 6 are the top six business and financial terms to better understand your clients’ perspective and connect with their objectives. Let’s start with revenue. Revenue is simply the money that a company receives in exchange for its products and/or services. Now, there are a lot of terms that are associated with revenue. You might hear gross revenue, net revenue, and top line. Let’s unpack those, too.
Gross revenue is the total amount of money a business receives from its sales. That’s also called the top line. Which term a person uses often depends on their role. I’ve been in cross-functional meetings that include someone from sales, operations, and HR, plus the CEO and CFO. That’s a lot of different people with many points of view. One person might use the term top line, while someone else uses the term gross revenue. They are talking about the same thing: money the business made from sales.
Net revenue is the amount of money a business makes from sales over a given period of time, minus the expenses the business incurred making that product or providing that service over that same period. Let’s say a company made $10 million in sales last year, but it cost them $6 million to make the product (or create the service). They subtract the $6 million from the $10 million to come up with their net revenue of $4 million.
You’ll also hear the terms profit, earnings, and bottom line. Let’s talk about those in the context of the previous example. Four million is what the company had left after it accounted for the cost of producing that product or service. That was its net revenue. However, the company also has other yearly expenses, such as paying employees, rent, and overhead expenses to run the business. Those are called operating expenses. Companies calculate profit, earnings, and bottom line by subtracting operating expenses from net revenue. In our example, if operating expenses are $1 million, and net revenue is $4 million, profit is $3 million. (Fun fact: the term “bottom line” is derived from accounting ledgers. Picture the role of bookkeepers before computers; the number on the bottom line of the ledger page was the profit.)
A universal understanding
But wait, there’s more. If the company has loans, they have interest to pay. If they own equipment, they have depreciation to calculate. And of course, every business has to pay taxes. However, because those are not considered operating expenses, financial investors created a standard formula called EBITDA — an acronym for Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization. EBITDA provides a universal understanding of what is included when assessing a company’s earnings.
Whew! That’s the birds-eye explanation of revenue and its associated terms. The second term in The Business 6 is margin. Margin is typically discussed as a ratio. Here’s an example of how that works: let’s say your company has a product that sells for $20. The cost of producing that product is $15. That means you have $5 left. $5 out of $20 is 25 percent; your margin, then, is 25 percent. Why is margin important to designers? Often the budget for branding, design, and marketing comes out of margin. So when we’re in conversations with our clients, it’s not just about what they have to spend on our project— we want to understand where the budget is coming from as we talk about their investment in design.
This certainly happens to me when I’m designing packaging and I’m advising my client to do something really interesting to increase consumer engagement, or to stand out among the competition, or to align with an integrated marketing campaign. Let’s say I know that the cost for any extra design element I suggest— whether it’s a foil, a specialty substrate or a soft touch finish— will come out of the margin. Sometimes I’ll ask my client, “What is your margin?” When they tell me, I have a better idea of their appetite for adding the extra element, particularly if I can tie the element to their specific business objectives.
So I can ask what their current margin is; I can ask what their projected sales are; I can ask what their marketing plan is. I can even suggest that adding that element to the design may increase their sales. (Be prepared to provide them with examples or studies to back that up.) Taking the conversation to this level lets my client know that I am in business with them; that I’m designing strategically to help them meet their objectives, whether those objectives are related to revenue, profit, market, consumers, sustainability, or any number of goals my client may have at any one time.
Join me next time as we dive into two more terms in The Business 6: Market Share and De-commoditize.
Vicki Strull is a design strategist with more than 25 years in the industry designing packaging, brand identities and a multitude of print and online touchpoints. Vicki co-founded MarketWise Academy with Daniel Dejan and Trish Witkowski to help fellow designers accelerate their impact, level up their design strategies, and thrive in a world dominated by business. That’s where the idea for The Business 6™ originated. To learn more about The Business 6™ and other strategies, visit marketwiseacademy.com or contact Vicki directly at vicki@marketwiseacademy.com | https://www.printmag.com/design-resources/how-to-design-for-business/ | 2022-09-19T20:40:50Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/design-resources/how-to-design-for-business/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Japanese inflation data and the People's Bank of China interest rate settings are the focus for the session on the data agenda.
Japanese inflation is expected to continue inching higher. The Bank of Japan is still viewing rising CPI as transitory. there is a policy meeting this week, September 21, no change is expected:
On the PBOC:
- the PBOC will set one- and five-year loan prime rates. Given the MLF rate remained steady last week there is no change expected to the LPRs
- From Monday: China rate cut. The 14-day reverse repos rate dropped to 2.15%, from 2.25%
This snapshot from the ForexLive economic data calendar, access it here.
The times in the left-most column are GMT.
The numbers in the right-most column are the 'prior' (previous month/quarter as the case may be) result. The number in the column next to that, where is a number, is the consensus median expected. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/here-is-whats-on-the-economic-calendar-in-asia-tuesday-20-september-2022-japan-cpi-20220919/ | 2022-09-19T20:46:05Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/here-is-whats-on-the-economic-calendar-in-asia-tuesday-20-september-2022-japan-cpi-20220919/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The EURGBP moved above the 50% of the move down from the September 2020 high to the March 2022 low. The 50% level comes in at 0.87465. The low today reached 0.87465 right at that level. Traders look at the 50% as a barometer for buyers winning or sellers winning. The buyers are so far winning the price is at 0.8766 currently.
Looking at the hourly chart below, the high price today did take out the high price from Friday. Friday's high price reached 0.87837. The high price today reached 0.87868. The buyers had their shot, and they missed.
So there is a little bit of resistance above and support below off the daily price action that is giving buyers and sellers an option with risk defining levels. Overall, the buyers are holding the better hand, but sellers can lean against the old high and put a stop above the level if the price should go higher.
On a move below the 50% level as 0.87465, would have traders eyeing the rising 100/200 hour MAs. That 100 hour MA comes in at 0.8709. The 200 hour MA comes in at 0.8693. Both are moving higher. The pair moved below both those MA on the corrective move lower last Wednesday, but once the price moved above both on Thursday, the traders used the 100 hour MA as a launch point to the upside.
This week the Bank of England is expected to to raise rates by 50 basis points sentiment was for a potential 75 basis point hike until the retail sales last week sent those chances lower. | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/eurgbp-stays-above-the-50-of-the-of-the-range-since-september-2020-high-20220919/ | 2022-09-19T20:46:36Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/eurgbp-stays-above-the-50-of-the-of-the-range-since-september-2020-high-20220919/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOVELAND, Colo. — The USDA found in the last year, more than 80% of farms across the country made less than $100,000, and low profits forced nearly 7,000 farms to shut down business. But there's a new, environmentally-friendly way of farming that's putting thousands of dollars back into farmers' pockets. It’s called carbon farming, and it’s gaining popularity in family-owned farms across the United States.
Todd Olander is trying the practice on his family farm. Since 1926, Olander’s family worked the land to make a living. Their farm sits in Loveland, Colorado under the sweeping mountains.
“I am the last remaining farmer that's left out of everyone,” said Todd Olander.
He’s trying to keep his family legacy alive, and to do that, he knows he must embrace change.
“I'm always open to trying different things,” he said.
The corn fields that once provided a stable paycheck weren’t making as much of a profit, so he started a malting operation that works with more than 150 Colorado breweries and distilleries.
It’s called Root Shoot Malting. Mike Myers helps him run it.
“We wanted to focus on quality more than anything, so that also kind of is why we've changed some of our farming practices is to make sure that our barley is the highest quality possible,” said Olander.
The biggest change to their farming practices: becoming a carbon farming operation.
Now, what does that mean?
When plants grow, they remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it. Now, there are companies making natural compounds to help crops do that better. The goal is to slow or reverse the impacts of climate change and grow crops better and faster.
Olander is getting paid by Locus Agricultural Solutions to apply their carbon farming powder on his crops’ seeds. The product allows more carbon to be taken out of the atmosphere than the crops could do on their own.
Olander said enrolling in the program earned him several thousand dollars in a time when every penny counts. The company that he’s working with has paid family-owned farms across the country more than $1.2 million for carbon farming.
“It's not going to replace like actually growing the crops. It's going to be just like extra money to kind of offset maybe some of the extra fertilizer costs or fuel costs that we're seeing,” said Olander.
Travis Kraft of Locus Agricultural Solutions said he hopes more family-owned farms will enroll in the program.
“Legacy transition in farming and ranching is under attack. With revenues inconsistent, extreme weather events, and increasing costs, profits are shrinking. Creating value through Carbon Credits that are valued at the highest level, with longstanding partners and entities is key for legacy transfer. CarbonNOW is breaking those barriers and allowing for more strategic and tangible decisions to be made. CarbonNOW and Locus AG, with our industry partners are and will continue to change the carbon credit industry, ultimately bringing more opportunity and tools back to the American producer,” said Kraft.
Olander agrees.
“That'd be my hope is that farmers are going to see the incentive to actually earn a little bit of extra money and they're going to take some of these steps towards regenerative farming,” said Olander.
Olander is not stopping with carbon farming. He is investing in regenerative farming practices throughout his operation. He’s growing radishes as ground cover to keep the soil cool, moist, and full of nutrients.
“Once you get the cycle working together, you should be able to eliminate fertilizer,” said Olander.
It's better for the planet, too, in the long run.
“I think we can reverse global warming. I mean, that's my hope,” said Olander.
You can learn more about carbon farming through Locus AG HERE. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/carbon-farming-program-paying-family-owned-farms-to-grow-more-sustainably | 2022-09-19T20:47:54Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/carbon-farming-program-paying-family-owned-farms-to-grow-more-sustainably | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MyPillow CEO's request to dismiss voting machine company's lawsuit denied
A judge on Monday denied MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Smartmatic over false claims about its voting systems.
Driving the news: Smartmatic, a company that provided election technology and services to Los Angeles County during the 2020 election, alleges that Lindell and MyPillow publicly promoted "the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen," per the court order.
- Lindell is a staunch supporter of former President Trump and has falsely claimed the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
Details: A federal judge in Minnesota dismissed separate motions from both Lindell and MyPillow, concluding that Smartmatic has alleged sufficient facts for a plausible claim.
- The claims include that Lindell's allegations were false and that he acted with malice in making the statements.
Background: Lindell filed a counter-suit in April 2021 after Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems Inc. — another voting technology company — sued him for defamation over his election-fraud claims.
- A federal judge sanctioned Lindell in May for what the judge called "frivolous" claims against Smartmatic.
Of note: The complaint against Lindell is one of several cases filed by Smartmatic and Dominion after the 2020 election against those who have made false statements about the companies' voting technology, per Politico.
Go deeper: MyPillow CEO says FBI seized his cellphone | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/19/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindells-lawsuit-smartmatic-voting-machine | 2022-09-19T20:47:56Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/19/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindells-lawsuit-smartmatic-voting-machine | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CINCINNATI, Ohio (WCPO) — A grand jury indicted a woman who prosecutors say lost her second child as a result of co-sleeping.
Prosecutors in Cincinnati, Ohio, say Brooke Hunter's infant died in June as a result of co-sleeping.
Hunter reportedly lost another child about a year earlier because of co-sleeping.
The Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office said Hunter was warned about the dangers of co-sleeping after her first child died.
Co-sleeping, or bed-sharing, is when a parent sleeps in close physical or social contact with their child — often in the same bed or on a couch or chair.
The Centers for Disease Control says parents are encouraged to share a room with a baby, "but not the same bed." The CDC reports that there are about 3,500 sleep-related deaths among babies in the U.S. every year.
Prosecutors say since Hunter had been warned about the dangers of co-sleeping, her second child's death is considered a homicide. She was indicted on involuntary manslaughter and endangering children charges.
This story was originally reported by Taylor Weiter on wcpo.com. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/woman-indicted-after-second-child-dies-from-co-sleeping | 2022-09-19T20:48:31Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/woman-indicted-after-second-child-dies-from-co-sleeping | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Services will be held Saturday for Mary V. Murray, Former Mayor of Grand Coteau, who died September 12 at the age of 96.
Murray was the first woman to run and be elected in Grand Coteau as Alderwoman and as Mayor; the first African American female mayor in St. Landry Parish and the first woman from St. Landry to be appointed to a Louisiana State Board.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. on September 24 at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Grand Coteau. Interment will be in St. Charles Cemetery in Grand Coteau. The Rev. Mark Kramer, S.J., of St. Charles Borromeo Church will officiate at the services. A rosary will be prayed at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the funeral home.
The family requests that visiting hours be observed from 4:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Friday at the funeral home and will continue from 9:00 a.m. until service time on Saturday. Melancon Funeral Home of Opelousas is in charge of the arrangements.
Here's her obituary:
Murray was the second of 16 children of Lawrence Murray and Mary Melancon Murray and a native of Grand Coteau. Known as “Sister” to her family and dearest friends, Mary lived a long, beautiful life in her “little serene historic town of Grand Coteau.” Her greatest life pleasures were spending time with her family and friends, eating good food, playing bingo, traveling, watching the “Young and the Restless” and listening to Zydeco music as a reminder of special times with her mother. Mary “V or Vivian” was a “lady” admired for her beauty, style, and grace, and to many, she was an inspiration and a role model. “Miss Murray was the one of the last of the Mohicans!’
An educated woman, Mary received her early education at St. Peter Claver Elementary and was a graduate of Holy Rosary Institute in Lafayette- Class of 1943. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Elementary Education from Xavier University of New Orleans in 1947 and a Master of Education from Texas Southern University in Houston.
A nurturing woman, Mary became an educator at the former St. Peter Claver Elementary and Grand Coteau Elementary where she retired after thirty years of service with the St. Landry Parish School Board in 1977. She was affectionately known as “Miss Murray, my 5th grade teacher” whom former students as well as others still remember and comment on her stylish dress and good-smelling Estee Lauder perfume.
A praying woman, Mary believed in prayer and putting God first. She was actively involved throughout her life in her church community as a religious education teacher, a member of St. Charles Church’s first Parish Council, a lector, and a member of the Altar Society. For 70 years, Lady Murray was a member of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Knights of Peter Claver. She had served as Grand Lady of the K.P.C. Ladies Auxiliary Sophie Barat Court #34, was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary Third Degree, and was a Charter member as well as served as Faithful Captain and Faithful Navigator of the Meritorious Fourth Degree (Ladies of Grace Mother Katherine Drexel Chapter 7), the division in which she received the order’s highest honor, the Cartagena Award. Lady Murray was also a recipient of the Gold Medal of Merit Award, the highest award by the National Convention of the Knights of Peter Claver. From the Diocese of Lafayette, she received the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award. Yet, her greatest religious honor- decades earlier- was receiving the Benemerenti Medal awarded by Pope John XXIII in 1961 for meritorious service to the church, school, and community.
A pioneering woman, Mary was the first woman appointed to the Town’s Planning Commission. She was the first woman to run for an elected position in Grand Coteau, as Alderwoman. She was the first woman to be appointed to a State Board- State Advisory Council on Employment Security- from St. Landry Parish by Governor Edwin Edwards. She became not only the first female mayor of Grand Coteau, but also the first African American woman to become mayor in St. Landry Parish.
A committed woman, she was on various advisory boards in the parish: St. Landry Parish Community Action Agency, T.H. Harris Technical Community College, Health Care Options, Inc., St. Landry Community Services, Thensted Outreach Center, Advisory Council of Project Care (Council on Aging) and the Acadiana Regional Development District. During her term as mayor, she started the Senior Food Program with support of the Archdiocese of New Orleans for low-income seniors which eventually extended throughout St. Landry Parish.
As a result of her achievements and service, Mary V. Murray has been honored by the St. Landry Branch of the National Association of University Women in its Black History Hall of Fame. In 2014, she received the St. Landry Democratic Parish Executive Committee Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding performance and dedicated service. Last year in 2021, the Senate of the Louisiana Legislature commended her for many years of outstanding community service in St. Landry Parish.
Survivors include two brothers: Joseph Harold Murray of Houston, TX and Willie James Murray (Sandra) of Houston, TX; five sisters: Irma M. Charles of Houston, TX; Theresa Imelda Robinson of Hawthorne, CA; Augustine M. Wider of Colorado Springs, CO; Clara Ann Warr (John) of Inglewood, CA and Louise A. Debnam (William) of Inglewood, CA; one niece whom she raised, Stephanie Murray Stephens (Glenn) of Opelousas, LA; her beloved great-nephews/niece: Chase Stephens, Chante’ Stephens and Chandler Stephens, all of Opelousas, LA; her godchildren: Joseph Harold Murray, Jr. (Lillie) of Austin, TX, Thelma Ferguson of Tinton Falls, NJ, Angie Vallien Fields (Joe) of Missouri City, TX, and Cenece Dixon of Aurora, CO; and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Lawrence Ignatius, and Mary Melancon Murray; six brothers: John Herbert Murray, Lawrence Xavier Murray, Charles Ignatius Murray, Felton Francis Murray (infant) and a set of newborn twins, Joseph and Lawrence Murray, Jr.; and two sisters: Bernice M. Caesar and Dolores Murray.
A rosary will be prayed at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the funeral home.
The family requests that visiting hours be observed from 4:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Friday at the funeral home and will continue from 9:00 a.m. until service time on Saturday.
Melancon Funeral Home of Opelousas is in charge of the arrangements. | https://www.katc.com/news/st-landry-parish/former-grand-coteau-mayor-mary-murray-has-died | 2022-09-19T20:48:37Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/st-landry-parish/former-grand-coteau-mayor-mary-murray-has-died | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kansas foster care contractors had more than 50 children sleep in offices and other inappropriate places in 2021 — despite a court settlement that pushes the state to fix its ailing, privatized foster care system.
That’s according to a new, third-party report released Monday, which concludes the contractors weren’t facing extraordinary circumstances that would justify these arrangements.
Still, the Kansas foster care system has improved, the report found.
The state’s contractors hit targets for moving children among foster homes less often. During 2021, 86% of the state’s foster kids were in stable placements, which topped the goal of 80% set for that year.
The report gauges the state’s progress toward goals set out in a 2020 court settlement stemming from a 2018 class-action lawsuit.
Kansas was supposed to make sure that foster care providers stopped making kids sleep in offices, conference rooms and similar places by the end of 2021.
“We understand that it takes time for meaningful change,” said Teresa Woody, the litigation director for Kansas Appleseed, one of the groups that brought the lawsuit. “But there’s a lot that needs to be done to protect foster care children.”
Wood praised signs of progress. But she said Kansas will need to keep working on community mental health services, contractor accountability, and supports that help families keep their children. She urged the Legislature to help with funding.
Most of the children who slept in offices and similarly inappropriate places in 2021 were there for one night. A handful slept there longer, including one whose stay outside of foster homes lasted 54 days.
Kansas was also supposed to put a stop to night-to-night foster home placements by Dec. 31, 2021. Those are situations in which foster kids get moved within a day. About 800 children experienced night-to-night moves in 2021.
More than 6,000 kids are in foster care in Kansas.
The Kansas agency that oversees foster care said in a press release that several initiatives will help give children more stability. The Department for Children and Families recently launched a network intended to offer stand-by service beds and added therapeutic foster homes for higher-needs children.
Gov. Laura Kelly highlighted these facts in a press release responding to the findings.
“My administration inherited a broken child welfare system,” Kelly said. “We have made substantial progress in making sure kids are in stable placements and experience fewer moves. There’s more work to be done, but this report shows we are headed in the right direction.”
Kansas agreed to a long list of improvements in the 2020 settlement, which includes a series of deadlines for reaching those goals.
The state has completed some of the changes already — such as tracking how many foster kids end up in correctional facilities.
But the third-party report found that the foster care system continues to subject children to delays in mental health care. And the state needs to improve its data, to allow for tracking caseworker workloads, for example.
The court settlement resulted from a 2018 class-action lawsuit against state officials.
Foster care contractors were shuffling children night after night from one home to the next, and having some sleep in offices.
The suit also accused Kansas of failing to ensure that foster kids get appropriate mental health care.
Children in foster care have high rates of trauma and mental health needs. By some estimates, as many as 50-80% need mental health services.
A team of lawyers from the National Center for Youth Law, Children’s Rights, Kansas Appleseed and private law firms represented the plaintiffs.
The lawsuit said some children had to switch their locations more than 100 times while in foster care. It argued that the situation compounded children’s trauma and made them, in effect, homeless.
The class-action suit didn’t ask for money. Instead, it demanded Kansas fix its foster care system.
The 2020 settlement gave Kansas various deadlines to make a long list of improvements.
Under the settlement, the Center for the Study of Social Policy is determining whether Kansas reaches various benchmarks, in part by checking random samples of foster kids to see how often they get moved and whether they receive timely mental health care.
A separate court settlement from earlier this summer requires the foster care system to pay $1.25 million after a child was sexually assaulted while forced to sleep in an office.
The assault happened in 2018. The victim was 13 years old at that time and had been sleeping in a Johnson County office of foster care contractor KVC Kansas. KVC was also keeping an 18-year-old there who had a history of abusing others and attacked the girl when KVC staff weren’t around.
Kansas News Service stories and photos may be republished by news media at no cost with proper attribution and a link to the Kansas News Service.
Celia Llopis-Jepsen is a reporter for the Kansas News Service. You can follow her on Twitter @celia_LJ or email her at celia (at) kcur (dot) org.
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Murders down 22% on Chicago's West Side, CPD officials say
CHICAGO - Chicago police said Monday they are making progress reducing crime on the West Side.
CPD officials said homicides in the 11th District are down 22% compared to last year. The 11th District encompasses West Garfield Park and a portion of East Garfield Park.
Police said shootings in that area are down 18% over last year.
CHICAGO SEES ONE OF ITS MOST VIOLENT WEEKENDS OF THE YEAR: 9 KILLED, 54 WOUNDED
Religious leaders there said community events involving the police have been key to reducing violence, and they are planning two gun buy-backs this weekend to keep the momentum going.
"These are anonymous, no question gun turn-ins," said Glen Brooks, CPD's Director of Community Policing. "So whether someone has passed away and left you a gun, whether you found that gun underneath a bedroom or whether you just have a weapon you no longer want, you can turn in that gun and receive a $100 gift card, no questions asked."
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The gun buy-back is being held by the Corinthian Temple Church of God in Christ on West Washington Street and the Kingdom Word on the South Side at 113th Street and King Drive.
They will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/murders-down-22-on-chicagos-west-side-cpd-officials-say | 2022-09-19T20:51:45Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/murders-down-22-on-chicagos-west-side-cpd-officials-say | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Naperville home catches on fire after being struck by lightning
NAPERVILLE, Ill. - A Naperville home caught on fire after being struck by lightning Sunday night.
The incident occurred in the 4600 block of Corktree.
Just before 11 p.m. Sunday, Naperville's Public Safety Answering Point received a call from a resident who stated their home was on fire after being struck by lightning, officials said.
The four residents safely evacuated the home prior to the Naperville Fire Department arriving at the scene at 11:05 p.m.
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Crews were able to confine the fire to the roof, where the lightning strike occurred.
The fire was deemed under control at 11:13 p.m., officials said.
No injuries were reported.
The residence was deemed to be habitable, but the blaze caused about $30,000 in damages. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/naperville-home-catches-on-fire-after-being-struck-by-lightning | 2022-09-19T20:51:51Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/naperville-home-catches-on-fire-after-being-struck-by-lightning | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Yakima police are investigating a drive-by shooting that resulted in three deaths Friday evening.
A 21-year-old woman was killed in a shootout at a downtown Yakima intersection and a mother and daughter were killed when their car was struck by one of the fleeing vehicles, according to a Yakima police news release.
About 9 p.m. Friday, gunfire between two vehicles, one a silver Audi, erupted at the intersection of South First Street and Yakima Avenue, the release said.
The driver of the Audi was shot in the head and died and a 21-year-old male passenger was shot in the arm, the release said.
The other vehicle involved fled as did the Audi, which then was being driven by a 17-year-old boy, the release said.
The teen was driving fast on West Lincoln Avenue when he crashed into a Nissan Sentra as it was traveling through the Third Avenue intersection, killing the driver — a 21-year-old woman — and her 58-year-old mother, the release said.
The teen and the man shot in the arm were taken to an area hospital, the release said.
The teen faces possible vehicular homicide charges, and reckless speed and impairment are being investigated as factors, the release said.
The Yakima Police Major Crimes and Gang Unit is investigating the case. Anyone with information, including video, is asked to contact the police department at 509-577-6200. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/police-investigating-friday-night-drive-by-shooting-that-resulted-in-crash-three-deaths/article_277d7c4c-3848-11ed-bab4-efb7baf0956e.html | 2022-09-19T20:53:24Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/police-investigating-friday-night-drive-by-shooting-that-resulted-in-crash-three-deaths/article_277d7c4c-3848-11ed-bab4-efb7baf0956e.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
If the Emmy Awards are the yardstick for quality television content, the HBO empire has left its biggest competitor, Netflix, in the dust this year at the industry’s most coveted awards show, held last Monday in Los Angeles.
Since the coronavirus pandemic, staying in and keeping up to date on the latest TV shows has almost become a sport of sorts, as the landscape of television has transformed and expanded in the era of streaming services: Netflix, HBO Max, Apple TV+, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Peacock — who can keep up?
In the new “platinum age of television,” cable TV has been in free fall, with more families opting out every year — by the end of next year, traditional cable TV subscriptions are expected to drop to less than half of all U.S. households, according to an Insider Intelligence study released earlier this year. From 2016 to 2021, pay TV, aka subscription or cable TV, lost more than 50 million adult viewers or 25.5 million households, posting the steepest drop in 2020 — at the peak of the pandemic, when millions were stuck at home.
About 85% of U.S. households subscribe to at least one streaming service, and the average home subscribes to nearly five, the study’s data shows.
With cable usurped by the proliferation of streaming services — often marketed in bundles to hedge against audiences’ growing fatigue with the overwhelming range of paid subscriptions — it has become harder to decipher which of these companies is actually winning the “streaming wars.”
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences this year chose to extricate itself from this dispute when it refused to tally Emmy nominations by network or service.
So we took a stab at it. Here’s what we found out about streaming supremacy in 2022.
Streaming supremacy
Netflix scored 105 nominations this year, the least since the streaming giant first netted over 100 nominations in 2019 — the year streaming services firmly established their dominance over network TV with the emergence of Apple TV+ and HBO Max.
Netflix won 26 Emmys this year, of which only three were in the major, televised categories of acting and directing. Two of those three awards went to “Squid Game,” which made Emmy history as the first foreign-language show to be nominated among the year’s top dramas.
However, despite the colossal success of “Squid Game,” “Ozark” and “Stranger Things,” Netflix’s subscriber base is on the decline, and the platform’s Emmys performance is perhaps contributing to that drop.
In July, Netflix reported a loss of nearly 1 million subscribers in quarter two after shedding 200,000 subscribers the previous quarter. While the company expected to lose 2 million customers, the million-subscription dip was enough for critics to point out the decline in quality programming on Netflix.
Netflix’s subscriber base has reduced to less than two-thirds of U.S. TV subscribers, and its market penetration continues to decline, according to Kantar Group, a data analytics company.
This decline is backdropped by competing subscription offers from other streaming services offering competing content as the streaming space rapidly matures.
HBO Max, which includes content from HBO, scored the most nominations the company has netted since 2019, when the age of streaming services truly arrived. At this year’s Emmys, the network took home wins across the major categories, including top drama “Succession,” and the limited series “The White Lotus” scoring the most Emmys of any show with five wins.
“Ted Lasso” on Apple TV+ raked in the second most wins for any show with four and held its own in 2022 after earning 20 nominations last year. The platform’s other original content, including “Severance,” “The Morning Show” and “The Problem With Jon Stewart,” scored nominations in major categories but did not win.
Nominations for Disney+ content also halved compared with last year, though with the company holding a majority stake in Hulu, viewers who subscribe to the Disney Bundle are still getting their money’s worth of award-winning content.
Hulu’s nomination count more than doubled from 2021 to 2022 with 58 nods. Shows like the Purdue Pharma scandal dramatization “Dopesick” and the Theranos drama “The Dropout” won Monday night in the prized acting categories (Michael Keaton and Amanda Seyfried, respectively, were honored as best lead actor and actress in a limited series).
If you count the major wins for ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” hailed as a harbinger of network TV’s comeback, which aired on Hulu (and recently expanded to HBO Max and Disney+), the streaming service possibly does offer the best deal. For exclusive content, Hulu’s final win count in the major categories was two, with an additional eight wins in the smaller categories. Between 2019 and 2021, excluding its partnership with FX, the streaming service went winless in major categories.
With 30 nominations, Amazon Prime Video did not make the top five this year, though it fared better than 2021. The streaming service has not featured in the top five streaming services since 2019, when it scored 47 nominations.
The real dark horse is Showtime, as nominations for the emerging streaming service have more than tripled since last year, led by the buzzworthy cult drama “Yellowjackets.”
“‘Stranger Things’ was hard to watch because it’s so scary. ‘Squid Game’ was hard to watch because it’s so violent,” joked Emmys host and self-proclaimed mayor of television Kenan Thompson at Monday’s ceremony. “‘Yellowjackets’ was hard to watch because it’s on Showtime.”
He’s not wrong. This writer distinctly remembers scrambling to sign up for a Showtime account to catch up to the “Yellowjackets” craze.
“Yellowjackets” was the only Showtime program to score a nomination in major categories this year, which is perhaps indicative of the fact that the Emmys are a good marker for estimating a platform’s quality of programming, but the award show is not the only marker determining the success of a TV production house.
Beyond the gold-winged statuette
Accolades certainly elevate a platform’s prestige, but they do not necessarily translate to a growth in audiences or commercial success. Further, with quality TV shows being churned out seemingly every other week, it’s harder than ever to earn hardware for television excellence.
“It’s the most coveted television accolade on the planet, yet it’s impossible to win one,” said Oprah Winfrey at the start of the ceremony. “There are 8 billion people on this planet but only 25 Emmys to be given out tonight,” she continued, quickly estimating the odds to be 300 million to 1.
Those odds often seem worse for people of color on television.
A few years after the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, a tally of the race of Emmy wins in the leading categories of acting and directing shows the Television Academy still has a ways to go. Seven people of color won major categories Monday night, including three in acting categories.
“When I was a little girl, all I wanted to see was me in the media — someone fat like me, Black like me, beautiful like me,” said an emotional Lizzo, accepting the competition program award for “Lizzo’s Watch Out For The Big Grrrls.”
“If I could go back and tell little Lizzo something, I’d be like, ‘You’re going to see that person, but (expletive), it’s going to have to be you.’”
Moments later, Academy chair and CEO Frank Scherma lauded FX’s and Hulu’s “Reservation Dogs” and Peacock’s “We Are Lady Parts” as shows that “reflect the personal experience of people who make them,” but neither scored a nomination this year.
Elsewhere, Sheryl Lee Ralph of “Abbott Elementary” became the second Black woman in 35 years to win the Emmy for supporting comedic actress, while show creator Quinta Brunson became the second Black woman ever honored by the Academy for writing a comedy.
“I am an endangered species,” Ralph belted while accepting her Emmy, quoting a Dianne Reeves verse. “But I sing no victim’s song. I am a woman, I am an artist. And I know where my voice belongs.”
Perhaps the most searing remark on the challenges of representation at the Emmys came from Hwang Dong-hyuk, who was honored for directing Netflix’s cultural sensation megahit “Squid Game.” He and the show’s star, outstanding lead actor in a drama Lee Jung-jae, are the first Asians to win Emmys in their respective categories.
“I truly hope ‘Squid Game’ won’t be the last non-English series to be here at the Emmys,” Dong-hyuk said after acknowledging the role his peers at the Television Academy played in netting the show its 14 nominations and two major wins. “And I truly hope this won’t be my last Emmy, either.”
With a slew of big-ticket shows like “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” (Amazon Prime Video), “House of The Dragon” (HBO), “The Sandman” (Netflix) and “Obi-Wan Kenobi” (Disney+) eschewing old norms for diverse casting choices this year, the increasingly inclusive race for streaming dominance continues, with no winner yet determined.
As HBO rides a wave of winning momentum, Netflix stumbles to keep up and other competitors quickly gain ground, the only clear winner, really, is the audience — mildly fatigued, but mostly spoiled for choice, with more great shows to binge than ever. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/who-is-winning-the-streaming-wars-we-analyzed-data-from-the-emmys-to-find-out/article_24dd6402-384d-11ed-8b2c-872c7f79c4d3.html | 2022-09-19T20:53:30Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/who-is-winning-the-streaming-wars-we-analyzed-data-from-the-emmys-to-find-out/article_24dd6402-384d-11ed-8b2c-872c7f79c4d3.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Let’s look at the snap counts for each position, and mix in some stats to help contextualize how each group looked.
Offense
Quarterbacks -Trey Lance - 16, Jimmy Garoppolo - 60
Garoppolo’s adjusted completion percentage goes up to 73.7% from 61.9% once you account for throws on target and Brandon Aiyuk’s drop. Seven of Jimmy’s 13 completions went for first downs.
Ironically, Garoppolo struggled when he wasn’t blitzed. He was 4-for-4 for 51 yards and a touchdown when Seattle brought an extra rusher. When they sat back, Jimmy went 9-for-17 with 6.1 yards per attempt and had two of his passes batted down at the line of scrimmage.
Running backs - Deebo Samuel - 32, Kyle Juszczyk - 28, Jeff Wilson Jr. - 26, Ty Davis-Price - 19
Deebo, Wilson Jr., and TDP all had a rush over 15 yards. Wilson Jr. forced an impressive five missed tackles on 18 carries. The reason you give the ball to Samuel is that you know. Eventually, he’s going to break one.
Wide receiver/tight end - Samuel - 27, Brandon Aiyuk - 27, Ross Dwelley - 16, Kyle Juszczyk - 12, Jauan Jennings - 12, Ray-Ray McCloud - 11, Danny Gray -3
A somewhat uninspiring day from the wideouts. Aiyuk led the way with 63 receiving yards. Samuel had 45 yards after the catch but had 44 receiving yards total. His average depth of target was -0.2.
I thought we’d see more from Gray, but his snap count tells us the coaching staff doesn’t believe he’s ready. The good news is Gray was targeted twice. Jennings is an excellent blocker and deserves plenty of credit for mixing it up in the run game.
Offensive line - Trent Williams, Aaron Banks, Jake Brendel, Spencer Burford, Mike McGlinchey - 76 snaps each
Each starter played every snap. The quarterbacks were only pressured twice and the lone QB hit came when Seattle blitzed more than San Francisco had to block. If you guessed Aaron Banks would be the highest-graded offensive player for the Niners this week, come claim your prize.
It’s difficult to separate how much of this was due to the line blocking well and how much was because of a lackluster Seattle pass rush. Either way, the running backs had holes to run through and the quarterback was upright. That’s a good day at the office.
Defensive line - Nick Bosa - 36, Arik Armstead - 34, Charles Omenihu - 28, Samson Ebukam - 22, Javon Kinlaw - 21, Kevin Givens - 19, Drake Jackson - 14, Kerry Hyder 14, Hassan Ridgeway - 7
PFF charts win percentage for defensive linemen. Nick Bosa had the sixth-highest percentage yesterday at 29%. That’s what we’ve come to expect from Bosa. But Charles Omenihu came in at 16th with a 22.2 win percentage. Omenihu just turned 25.
Kevin Givens had three run stops on six snaps. He was terrific along the interior. The Niners are spoiled with depth.
Linebackers - Dre Grenlaw - 49, Fred Warner - 49, Azeez Al-Shaair - 19
Warner got lost on a scramble drill and was responsbile for Tyler Lockett’s 27-yard reception. Greenlaw allowed 36 yards in coverage, but that was on seven targets, which is an excellent ratio. It’s a little weird seeing Warner finish the game with one solo tackle, but that’s cause of a certain safety....
Defensive backs - Talanoa Hufanga - 49, Tashaun Gipson Sr. - 49, Emmanuel Moseley - 49, Charvarius Ward - 49, Samuel Womack - 30, George Odum - 1
Through two games Talanoa Hufanga has gotten his hands on more passes (3) than receptions allowed (2) on six targets. Have the 49ers played iffy quarterbacks? Sure, but that doesn’t take away from Hufanga being in the correct position to make plays on the ball.
Hufanga added two run stops and a pressure rushing the passer. If he keeps. playing this way Hufanga will wind up a top-10 safety in the league. I’m not a fan of waiting to crown young players. When they perform, they should be rewarded. Just as when they make mistakes, that should be pointed out. Hufanga had a missed tackle, but the way he sees the field and reacts to what the offense does is closer to a 10-year starter than a player who played sparingly as a rookie.
Ward had the easiest interception he’ll have all season. Ward had three run stops, Emmanuel Moseley had two, and Samuel Womack added one. Superb tackling in the secondary will be critical to this team’s success.
As will not allowing the big play. Moseley was mossed by DK Metcalf but the play was negated thanks to a penalty. But outside of that, the longest completion in the secondary was 17 yards. That’ll work. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/19/23361179/49ers-seahawks-snap-counts-stat-review | 2022-09-19T20:55:11Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/19/23361179/49ers-seahawks-snap-counts-stat-review | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The 49ers provided an update for quarterback Trey Lance after his surgery at Standford Hospital:
“San Francisco 49ers quarterback Trey Lance underwent successful surgery on his injured right ankle this morning, an injury that occurred in yesterday’s game versus the Seattle Seahawks.
Surgery was performed at Stanford Hospital and repaired two injuries to Lance’s ankle, a fibula fracture and ligament disruption. Lance will start the rehab process, and head team physician Dr. Tim McAdams is confident that he will recover completely in time for a full return in the 2023 season.”
NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported Lance’s injury wasn’t a compound fracture like Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. So, Lance’s bone didn’t break through the skin, so the risk of infection is much lower. Lance can expect a recovery between 4-6 months if all goes well.
I’ve had friends reach out to me about this injury, and they are convinced Lance won’t be the starter in 2023, as this gives Kyle Shanahan an out to look elsewhere. I’m not buying it. Lance is the team’s first-round pick next year, too. What do you think? | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/19/23361726/49ers-lance-ankle-update-injury | 2022-09-19T20:55:17Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/19/23361726/49ers-lance-ankle-update-injury | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
220919-N-ZG822-1131 ADRIATIC SEA (Sept. 19, 2022) Sailors wave to the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) during combined operations with the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) and the Orizzonte-class destroyer ITS Caio Duilio (D 554) in the Adriatic Sea, Sept. 19, 2022. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied and partner interests. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jacqueline Pitts)
This work, CSG-10 Combined Operations with ITS Caio Duilio (D 554) [Image 8 of 8], by PO2 Jacqueline Pitts, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright. | https://www.dvidshub.net/image/7424290/csg-10-combined-operations-with-its-caio-duilio-d-554 | 2022-09-19T20:58:01Z | dvidshub.net | control | https://www.dvidshub.net/image/7424290/csg-10-combined-operations-with-its-caio-duilio-d-554 | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Two arrested during Edgecombe Co. weekend road checkpoint operation
EDGECOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - An Eastern Carolina sheriff’s office set up a roadblock this past weekend to check for impaired drivers and ended up arresting two men on drug charges.
The Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office says Kody Townsend approached the roadblock and decided to drive off. Law enforcement pursued him into Martin County and the chase ended at the Robersonville exit. Townsend was charged with felony fleeing to elude arrest, felony possession of marijuana (more than two pounds), felony maintaining a vehicle, and two counts of carrying a concealed weapon.
Deputies say Townsend was jailed in Edgecombe County and given a $50,000 bond.
The sheriff’s office says Willie Freeman approached the roadblock and law enforcement searched the vehicle after finding probable cause to do so. Freeman was charged with felony possession of marijuana (nearly three ounces), felony possession of schedule I (six dosages of MDMA), and possession with intent to sell and distribute marijuana.
Deputies say Freeman was jailed in Edgecombe County and given a $10,000 bond.
In addition to the two men arrested, WITN is told that other charges were given out, including one charge of driving while impaired, two charges of driving while license revoked, nine counts of no operators license, one count of expired registration, one count of wanted person, and one count of seatbelt violation.
The Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office says the Rocky Mount Police Department, Nash County Sheriff’s Office, Martin County Sheriff’s Office, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, and other agencies took part in the operation.
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Copyright 2022 WITN. All rights reserved. | https://www.witn.com/2022/09/19/two-arrested-during-edgecombe-co-weekend-road-checkpoint-operation/ | 2022-09-19T21:04:39Z | witn.com | control | https://www.witn.com/2022/09/19/two-arrested-during-edgecombe-co-weekend-road-checkpoint-operation/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Megan Thee Stallion disputes Nicki Minaj’s claims of him telling her to get an abortion.
Minaj not new to having rap beef went on her Queen Radio show discussing her rivals including an unidentified person believed to be Megan, who recommended she get an abortion.
On the epsiode she explained how the alleged person told her to terminate her pregnancy at an abortion clinic after she turned down a drink offer.
“Imagine telling someone you didn’t want a drink… you know, because you were, at the time, possibly pregnant, because you were actively trying to have a baby,” Minaj said. “Imagine that person saying, ‘Oh girl, you can go to the clinic!'”
Minaj also talked about how the unknown person attempted to send congratulation flowers to her house honoring the birth of her son after seeing Beyoncé sent her flowers.
Several of Minaj’s cult following fanbase, “The Barbz” accused Megan of being the culprit.
One of her fans tweeted “@theestallion Nicki Minaj is accusing you of encouraging abortion & child endangerment w/ alcohol.. This isn’t something to stay quiet on.”
Megan saw the tweet and responded back saying that’s a lie.
Megan and Minaj’s fans tussled back and forth in a war of words, with Megan eventually clearing the air on the rumors.
“No names were mentioned but u were first to respond? Oh baby the shoe fits,” Megan replied. “So this person didn’t mention me?”
“If someone @ you you can respond right or that don’t apply for every user on twitter? If someone directly @ my name …why do they be confused when I reply lol?” | https://www.stlamerican.com/arts_and_entertainment/hot_sheet/megan-thee-stallion-slams-critics-who-claim-she-suggested-nicki-minaj-to-get-an-abortion/article_9be1af98-3854-11ed-adc5-0b5359b67678.html | 2022-09-19T21:08:33Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/arts_and_entertainment/hot_sheet/megan-thee-stallion-slams-critics-who-claim-she-suggested-nicki-minaj-to-get-an-abortion/article_9be1af98-3854-11ed-adc5-0b5359b67678.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PnB Rock, 30, was fatally shot Monday during a robbery at Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles in Los Angeles.
The slaying of the Philadelphia native happened at 1:23 p.m. at the Inglewood location of the popular chain. He was declared dead soon after at a nearby hospital.
Los Angeles police Capt. Kelly Muniz informed The New York Post the suspect waved their gun in the air and demanded Rock hand over his personal belongings. Rock’s jewelry was targeted.
“He shot the victim and ran out the side door to a getaway car and then fled the parking lot,” Muniz said.
Rock, born Rakim Hasheem Allen, was at the restaurant with his girlfriend, who shared an Instagram post tagging the location they were dining at.
Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles shared they are deeply saddened by Rock’s death in a statement on Monday night.
“His passing represents an enormous loss to each and every one of us. Our most heartfelt condolences, thoughts, and prayers go to the Allen family at this difficult time,” the statement said.
“The safety of our employees and guests are our utmost priority. We have and will continue to keep our place of business as safe as possible.”
Rock rose to prominence in 2015 after his smash single “Selfish” reached No. 51 on the Billboard Hot 100. | https://www.stlamerican.com/arts_and_entertainment/hot_sheet/rapper-pnb-rock-was-murdered-inside-an-la-roscoe-s-chicken-and-waffles-on-monday/article_d6597ae4-33a3-11ed-a3e2-4bf093f8a0fd.html | 2022-09-19T21:08:39Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/arts_and_entertainment/hot_sheet/rapper-pnb-rock-was-murdered-inside-an-la-roscoe-s-chicken-and-waffles-on-monday/article_d6597ae4-33a3-11ed-a3e2-4bf093f8a0fd.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Eagle Productions, L.L.C. recently received a Midwest U.S.A. Prestige Awards for Diversity Marketing Services of the Year for 2022. Eagle Productions is a full-service marketing firm founded in 2020 by Angelia D. Bills, M.S.W., in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton, Missouri.
Eagle specializes in public relations, marketing, media relations, social media, and special events. Its major clients have included Midwest BankCentre, the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, the Missouri Minority Business Development Agency, Annie Malone Children & Family Services, the City of East St. Louis, and the St. Louis Development Corporation.
“I am very grateful to Midwest USA Prestige for honoring Eagle Productions with this award. Our collective staff have over 25 years of marketing experience to diverse communities, and we are truly excited to receive this recognition,” said Angelia D. Bills, president and CEO of Eagle Productions, LLC. | https://www.stlamerican.com/business/business_news/eagle-productions-receives-diversity-marketing-award/article_929c8bc4-384f-11ed-9fca-63cb27a6a046.html | 2022-09-19T21:08:45Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/business/business_news/eagle-productions-receives-diversity-marketing-award/article_929c8bc4-384f-11ed-9fca-63cb27a6a046.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LACEY, Wash.-
According to the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, 2,100 people are killed or seriously injured in train accidents every year in the United States.
U.S. Rail Safety week runs September, 19-25, with the goal of preventing rail-related deaths and injuries through education.
Washington Operation Lifesaver, Operation Lifesaver Incorporated (OLI), Operation Lifesaver Canada, and the Mexican Association of Railroads (AMF), are partnering during rail safety week for a social media campaign and education effort to keep people safe on and around the rails.
Throughout the week people can share their personal "Track Tragedies" on social media. These personal stories of those affected by rail accidents can be shared using the hashtags #STOPTrackTragedies and #railsafetyweek. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/stop-track-tragedies-during-rail-safety-week/article_34ef6342-3850-11ed-a8a3-d7f848da5bf6.html | 2022-09-19T21:12:59Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/stop-track-tragedies-during-rail-safety-week/article_34ef6342-3850-11ed-a8a3-d7f848da5bf6.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YAKIMA, Wash.-
UPDATE: 9/19/22
According to Yakima Police, the 17-year-old missing in Yakima since Saturday has been found and is home safe.
9/17/22
17-year-old Alexandra Tito was last seen wearing black jeans, a green "5 finger death punch" hoodie and carrying an olive green backpack.
Alexandra left home around 2:30 p.m. Saturday and is said to have brown "bobbed" hair, blue eyes, weighs about 100 pounds and 4'10".
She's known to hang out at Franklin Park and the area of S 1st St. and Nob Hill Blvd.
If you have any information you're asked to contact Yakima Police or non-emergency dispatch. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/update-17-year-old-missing-since-saturday-found/article_c12aa57a-37dc-11ed-98f7-7f72df1188e6.html | 2022-09-19T21:13:06Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/update-17-year-old-missing-since-saturday-found/article_c12aa57a-37dc-11ed-98f7-7f72df1188e6.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RICHLAND, Wash.-
UPDATE: 9/19/22
According to the Richland Police Department power has been restored in Richland following a crash that brought down three major power lines.
Temporary road closures are expected to remain in effect until noon.
The cause of the crash is currently under investigation.
9/19/22 6 a.m.
A car crash around 11:30 Sunday night cut power to a large portion of Richland.
According to Richland Fire Department Battalion Chief Brenda Rodgers, a car hit a power pole attached to a Bonnevile Power Administration (BPA) distribution line and three major power lines fell.
The car caught fire after the crash. The driver and passenger got out of the car before the fire, but were taken to the hospital.
Battalion Chief Rodgers says that power is at least partially out in Richland from Duportail Street north to First Street in the Hanford area.
Parts of Saint Street, Stevens Drive, and Jadwin Avenue are closed while Richland Police investigate the crash and power crews work to restore power.
There is currently no timetable for when power will be completely restored. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/update-power-restored-after-crash-in-richland/article_07847a1c-381b-11ed-97f5-3bacbeb6080f.html | 2022-09-19T21:13:12Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/update-power-restored-after-crash-in-richland/article_07847a1c-381b-11ed-97f5-3bacbeb6080f.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GREENBELT, Md., Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, along with the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, have partnered with science and technology nonprofit First Street Foundation to enhance climate risk modeling, promote applied science research, and more effectively communicate the risks of a changing climate.
NASA will now receive bulk access to First Street's national high-resolution, property-specific, climate-adjusted risk hazard and statistical data, as well as technical insights into the foundation's methodologies. The two groups will work together to further improve physical models and risk products related to floods, fires, heat, and other climate-driven hazards. The goals of the collaboration are to quantify economic impacts from climate and promote climate risk awareness to individuals, communities, as well as local, state, and federal government agencies.
"NASA Earth observations and model output are already publicly available, but this agreement with First Street enables us to work together to integrate our trusted observations, predictions, and scientific expertise into improved products that will be freely available," said Dr. Stephanie Schollaert Uz, applied sciences manager for the Earth Sciences Division at NASA Goddard.
The collaboration is one example of how NASA will continue working with partners inside and outside the federal government in the ongoing effort to equip decision makers with the information they need to mitigate, adapt, and respond to climate change. Data products and collaborations like this one are emblematic of what NASA aims to achieve through the new Earth Information Center – an agency initiative recently announced at the September meeting of the National Space Council.
"First Street's nonprofit mission is to quantify and communicate America's growing climate risk to inspire people to take action," said Dr. Ed Kearns, chief data officer at First Street Foundation. "Working with NASA will not only vastly expand our access to its expertise, but also provides us with new avenues of communication to federal agencies, states, and local governments to help us deliver our message about the risks of climate change to communities across the country."
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Dyania Health's technology de-identifies and derives clinically accurate meaning from unstructured and structured EMR-based patient data to automate manual chart review, a process commonly used in pre-screening patients for clinical trials, researching biomarkers, and running in-silico synthetic studies.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dyania Health was founded in 2019 and is led by a seasoned entrepreneurial team, NLP data scientists, physicians, and serial drug inventors who have worked at the US's top institutions including UCLA, Harvard Medical School, Northwell Health, and Kite Pharma. The founders are committed to addressing a significant and unsolved problem for clinical trials: manual chart review to pre-screen patients for clinical research is cumbersome and time-consuming. The process to match patients on very specific and time-sensitive clinical trial criteria typically takes 18 – 24 months for most trials.
Within oncology alone, there are approximately two million new patients per year in the U.S. These patients' histories are also dynamically changing over time as their diseases progress, often quickly. Hence, an army of clinical research associates constantly reading ever-changing sets of EMR files is an impossible feat, and as a result, patients are often never found. Finding a "needle in a timestack", within a patient's window of opportunity, could mean qualification, access, and potential enrollment in a clinical study for a drug that could be an additional, life-saving care option for a patient who has exhausted other avenues.
The HIPAA compliant technology Dyania Health is building takes a prescriptive, rule-based approach, utilizing in-house medical and scientific expertise to drive optimal clinical research, bring drugs to market faster, improve patient outcomes, and save patient lives.
John Chelico, MD, CMIO of Common Spirit and former CIO of Northwell Health described, "Dyania Health's approach to working with large health systems quickly creates a safe IT environment that unlocks and de-identifies the unstructured patient data from electronic health record databases. This process will be instrumental in accelerating the throughput of clinical trials accrual in a safe and compliant way."
To fuel scale of algorithms and engineering, product development, and pharmaceutical client support, Dyania Health has announced the close of a $5.3 million seed round, led by Innospark Ventures. Also participating in the round were Outsiders Fund, Wild Basin, Big Pi Ventures, and Tau Ventures with recent investment from Genesis Ventures and TLife Investments.
Media Contact: Julie DeSimone
julie@dyaniahealth.com
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